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Body found in Mass. river near yacht club

Divers pulled the body from the river near the Neponset Valley Yacht Club on Granite Avenue just after 11 a.m., according to Massachusetts State Police

First responders at the scene of a death investigation by the Neponset River in Milton, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024.
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A man's body was found partially submerged in the Neponset River in Milton, Massachusetts, Tuesday morning, police said.

First responders were seen at the Neponset Valley Yacht Club on Granite Avenue, near the Granite Avenue Drawbridge over the Neponset River, soon after the body was reported about 9:10 a.m.

Divers pulled the body from the river near the small yacht club just after 11 a.m., according to Massachusetts State Police.

The body had items with the name of a man in his 50s who'd been missing from Suffolk County since December, the Norfolk District Attorney's Office said. The district attorney's office said Thursday night that the medical examiner had identified the man as John Wesley Young III, of Boston.

The cause and manner of death remain undetermined, the district attorney's office said.

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