04-28-2011, 07:37 PM
WWLTV.com
NEW ORLEANS – The search for a couple of missing teenaged brothers has shifted about twenty miles after fishermen made the discovery of a body in the eastern end of Lake Pontchartrain Thursday afternoon.
The body was badly decomposed and has not yet been identified as one of the missing teens, but was the first discovery in nearly four days of searching.
“He does appear to be an African-American male,” said Deputy Superintendent Marlon Defillo. “We don’t have an age. We are still in the stage of trying to identify the victim and the cause of death as well.”
Defillo said experts have told him that it is possible for a body to have made its way from the area where the boys were last seen to the area near Lake Catherine.
“Given the wind condition, the weather over the past 4-5 days and based on the information I’ve gotten from the experts, it’s a possibility that they traveled this far.”
Crews began searching the area where the body was found, though the search was called off for the night due to windy conditions that made the search hazardous.
The word of the discovery spread quickly, with family and friends of Aaronne Russell and Aaronne Mitchell making the quick trip around the lake.
“A lot of us haven’t been sleeping, a lot of us haven’t ate,” said Vernell Edwards. “So we just out here.”
NEW ORLEANS – The search for a couple of missing teenaged brothers has shifted about twenty miles after fishermen made the discovery of a body in the eastern end of Lake Pontchartrain Thursday afternoon.
The body was badly decomposed and has not yet been identified as one of the missing teens, but was the first discovery in nearly four days of searching.
“He does appear to be an African-American male,” said Deputy Superintendent Marlon Defillo. “We don’t have an age. We are still in the stage of trying to identify the victim and the cause of death as well.”
Defillo said experts have told him that it is possible for a body to have made its way from the area where the boys were last seen to the area near Lake Catherine.
“Given the wind condition, the weather over the past 4-5 days and based on the information I’ve gotten from the experts, it’s a possibility that they traveled this far.”
Crews began searching the area where the body was found, though the search was called off for the night due to windy conditions that made the search hazardous.
The word of the discovery spread quickly, with family and friends of Aaronne Russell and Aaronne Mitchell making the quick trip around the lake.
“A lot of us haven’t been sleeping, a lot of us haven’t ate,” said Vernell Edwards. “So we just out here.”