HYDE PARK — Officials identified a body pulled from Lake Michigan on Sunday as Ambrose Monye, 28, a medical student who had been missing since April 17.
Monye, of the 5500 block of South Everett Avenue, had been weeks away from graduating from Guadalajara University's medical program when he went missing, his family told NBC News.
According to a police report issued April 27, Monye had last been seen walking near Jackson Park Hospital in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, where he'd been completing clinical rotations.
On Sunday, the Chicago Police Marine Unit recovered a man's body from Lake Michigan near Promontory Point, in the 5400 block of South Lake Shore Drive, in Hyde Park. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office later identified the man as Monye.
The circumstances surrounding his death are being investigated, officials said.
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