{"id":145310,"date":"2026-03-22T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145310\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:31:23","slug":"body-of-missing-26-year-old-washington-county-man-pulled-from-monongahela-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145310\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of missing 26-year-old Washington County man pulled from Monongahela River"},"content":{"rendered":"

The body of a missing 26-year-old man from Washington County was pulled from the Monongahela River this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the Allegheny County Coroner’s Office, 26-year-old Shelby Rhodes was pulled from the river on Saturday evening around 6:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The body was pulled from the river near Bunola River Road in Monongahela.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rhodes had been missing since early February, when he was last seen near the Monongahela River under the city’s bridge<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last month, crews used high-tech equipment to assist them in the search, but at the time, the river was still covered with ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s been an all-out effort to try to recover or find the gentleman that’s missing,” said Monongahela City Fire Chief Aaron Leezer at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The search focused on the riverbanks, underwater, but the visibility was low at the time. To assist in the search, they utilized an aerial drone, sonar equipment, and underwater drones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They’re like really small submarines, basically, and they have cameras and everything on them, and they can go under and, seeing what we can’t see under the ice,” Leezer explained.<\/p>\n

The coroner’s report provided to KDKA-TV did not provide a cause of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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