Family members of a 20-year-old who went missing in Sault Ste. Marie this weekend have taken to social media to confirm he has died after his body was discovered in the St. Marys River.
Colton Brown — a resident of Kasabonika Lake First Nation, a fly-in community 600 km north of Thunder Bay — had stopped in the Sault as part of an Ontario colleges field trip last week when he went missing near the Roberta Bondar Pavilion at around 4 a.m. Saturday.
The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service alerted the public of his disappearance shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.
According to Facebook posts from Brown’s loved ones, the news of his death was broken to them at some time before 7 p.m. today.
Brown’s older sister Sharilyn also took to social media tonight and shared a photo of their parents standing along the St. Marys River near the area their son was discovered.
“They needed to know where he was found, so they went,” she told SooToday. “My parents and three of my sisters and I went to check.”
Sault Police issued a statement just before 8:15 p.m. tonight to say Brown “has been located and is no longer considered missing.”
Police spokesperson Lincoln Louttit said that is all the information they have available at this time.
SooToday will continue to update this story as more details becomes available.
