New details were provided by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Wednesday after a body was recovered in Biscayne Bay near Brickell over the weekend. <\/p>\n
According to the FWC, on Saturday, they were told by Miami Police that there was a missing person in Miami-Dade County.<\/p>\n
During their investigation, FWC learned that on Friday, there was a group of eight passengers and one operator on board a chartered 39-foot vessel.<\/p>\n
As the vessel was traveling from Hobie Beach toward the Miami River, a passenger noticed that 23-year-old Akin Liverpool was missing.<\/p>\n
A search for Liverpool then started.<\/p>\n
Two days after Liverpool was reported missing, his body was found by Miami Police in the water.<\/p>\n
He was identified as Liverpool.<\/p>\n
NBC6 spoke to his friends and family.<\/p>\n
“Akin was a bundle of joy,” said Crystal King, Liverpool’s aunt. “He was the life of the party. He was just an all-around good person. Very respectful, very mannerable, someone you can rely on. He was a young man that was going places.”<\/p>\n
Liverpool graduated from Florida Memorial University in 2024, a statement from the university said.<\/p>\n
The statement reads in part:<\/p>\n
“Akin\u2019s passing is a heartbreaking reminder of how precious life truly is. Though his time with us was far too short, his memory will forever remain a part of the FMU family. As a fellow Lion, he leaves behind a legacy of determination, dreams, and the impact he made on those who had the privilege of knowing him.”<\/p>\n
FWC is still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New details were provided by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Wednesday after a body was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-311031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}