Family devastated after body of missing Southern University student pulled from Lake Pontchartrain Marquise Jones' family speaks out By Kimberly Curth | March 12, 2021 at 5:32 PM CST - Updated March 12 at 5:32 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -A Slidell family is devastated after authorities pulled the body of a missing Southern University student out of Lake Pontchartrain Thursday. When Marquise Jones, 21, went missing, the NOPD said it was investigating the possibility of foul play in his disappearance. Now, his family asks for help finding out what happened to him. Jones was a nursing student on the Dean’s List at Southern University in Baton Rouge. He was last seen the night of February 26, leaving a party on Onzaga Street in Gentilly.