BATON ROUGE – Police are nonetheless looking for a person who vanished after he reportedly went swimming within the Mississippi River on Wednesday.
A number of legislation enforcement officers rushed to the levee alongside downtown Baton Rouge late Wednesday morning after getting studies that the person disappeared within the water. Witnesses stated the person was seen leaping into the water close to North Road and River Street.
A number of cops have been seen looking alongside the water’s edge simply earlier than midday Wednesday.
.@USCGHeartland arriving to help within the restoration of the physique of a person who, witnesses say, intentionally went for a swim within the MS river. pic.twitter.com/MTH0V3uBgI
— Bess Casserleigh (@BCasserleigh) December 7, 2022
Police continued to go looking the realm close to the levee into the night, with a big legislation enforcement presence lingering there previous 5 p.m.
There was nonetheless no signal of the person Thursday, and police stated they deliberate to proceed the search into Friday.