The Key Bridge Response Unified Command announced the discovery in a statement. The body was retrieved from the waters on Sunday and positively identified by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Monday.
The discovery comes weeks after the Key Bridge collapsed on Mar. 26. The container ship Dali hit one of the Key Bridge’s support piers while leaving the Port of Baltimore, causing the majority of the structure to plunge into the Patapsco River.
In a Monday press release, the Unified Command explained that the body was found located in “what [salvage teams] believed to be one of the missing construction vehicles.
The Maryland State Police, the FBI, and the Maryland Transportation Authority Police responded and located a deceased victim trapped inside the vehicle.”
The identity of the decedent will not be publicized at the request of the victim’s family, officials said. State officials met with the grieving relatives on Monday. The discovery marks the fourth body found at the scene, with two other victims are still missing and presumed dead.
As we mourn the lives lost and continue the recovery operation, we recognize each missing individual is someone’s beloved friend or family member,” Superintendent of the Maryland Department of State Police Col. Roland L. Butler, Jr., said in a statement.
“Along with all of our allied law enforcement partners, we pledge to exhaust the physical and technical aspects of their training while deploying every available resource possible.
The Key Bridge Response Unified Command announced the discovery in a statement. The body was retrieved from the waters on Sunday and positively identified by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Monday.
The discovery comes weeks after the Key Bridge collapsed on Mar. 26. The container ship Dali hit one of the Key Bridge’s support piers while leaving the Port of Baltimore, causing the majority of the structure to plunge into the Patapsco River.
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