Body recovered, man identified in Tiscornia Beach drowning Search crews at North Pier on Thursday
BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. The St. Joseph Public Safety Department has located the body of a man that drowned near the North Pier at Tiscornia Beach on Thursday.
Officials say divers from the Michigan State Police and Berrien County Sheriff s Department have located the drowning victim, now identified as 80-year-old Sammuel Sohn, near the North Pier just before 6 p.m. on July 10th.
Officers from the St. Joseph Department of Public Safety were dispatched to the North Pier at Tiscornia Beach for a man needing help to get off the pier on Thursday, July 8th, around 10 a.m.
Body of missing 80-year-old fisherman located in Lake Michigan, identified
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and last updated 2021-07-10 19:17:00-04
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. â Authorities have located an elderly fisherman that had gone missing in Lake Michigan on Thursday, according to the St. Joseph Public Safety Department.
Weâre told the body of 80-year-old Sammuel Sohn was located near the North Pier at Tiscornia Beach.
Sohn reportedly went missing after reports were filed of a man requiring assistance in getting off the pier on July 8.
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Police in SW Michigan taking new look at teen s 91 death
May 25, 2021
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ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) Police in southwestern Michigan say they are following up on a tip in the 1991 death of a Black teenager who drowned in the St. Joseph River.
The death of Eric McGinnis raised racial tensions between Benton Harbor, which is mostly Black, and St. Joseph, which is mostly white, and was the subject of a 1998 book by Alex Kotlowitz.
Steve Neubecker, director of the St. Joseph Public Safety Department, said the case was reopened in late April based on information received from Brian Conybeare, a reporter at ABC57 in South Bend, Indiana.
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ST. JOSEPH, Mich. Police in southwestern Michigan say they are following up on a tip in the 1991 death of a Black teenager who drowned in the St. Joseph River.
The death of Eric McGinnis raised racial tensions between Benton Harbor, which is mostly Black, and St. Joseph, which is mostly white, and was the subject of a 1998 book by Alex Kotlowitz.
Steve Neubecker, director of the St. Joseph Public Safety Department, said the case was reopened in late April based on information received from Brian Conybeare, a reporter at ABC57 in South Bend, Indiana.
Conybeare said a man recently told him that he saw white teenagers chase Eric toward a pier along Silver Beach.