NEW YORK, NY – Police patrolling the area of the Madison River Bridge in the Harlem Rover on Thursday located a deceased male in the water. The body was later identified as missing 13-year-old Garrett Warren, of Harlem.
Police located Warren’s body at around 10:14 pm after a nearly weeklong search for the missing teen. He was last seen on Saturday, May 13th, near his West 143rd Street home in Manhattan.
Police issued a citywide search for Warren last weekend.
The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office will conduct an investigation to determine the cause of the boy’s death.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on Twitter @NYPDTips.