LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A physique discovered at Lake Mohave on Sept. 30 was taken to the Clark County coroner’s workplace, however no data has been launched.
8 Information Now has reached out to the coroner’s workplace for an replace after acquiring an announcement in regards to the physique from the U.S. Division of the Inside. Lake Mohave is inside Lake Mead Nationwide Recreation Space.
Info supplied by Inside spokesperson Elizabeth Peace mentioned rangers responded to a report of a useless physique on Sept. 30 simply earlier than 3 p.m. She didn’t point out if there may be an ongoing investigation.
The physique was simply north of Six Mile Cove on the Nevada facet of Lake Mohave. The cove is simply south of Cottonwood Cove, the place there’s a marina. A street connects Cottonwood Cove to the city of Searchlight.
It is as much as the coroner’s workplace to report the identification and trigger and method of demise.
The delay in reporting the physique could possibly be associated to the federal government shutdown. Regulation enforcement continues on the nationwide park, however its unclear whether or not staff who serve in public data roles are nonetheless at work.
A question to an e mail deal with for data from the park was answered by the Inside spokesperson, who added that no further data is on the market at the moment.
