The body of an adult male was recovered Sunday morning from the Cape Fear River near the U.S. Coast Guard dock.
The Wilmington Fire Department received a report of a body being sighted in the river and responded at 10:24 a.m. Responders confirmed and recovered the body, according to a notice from a department spokesman.
The man was not identified in that report, which referred questions to the Wilmington Police Department. A message left for spokeswoman Linda Rawley Sunday morning was not immediately returned. Communications staff at the department said a release with more information would be issued later today.
Police were searching late last week for a man who had jumped into the river and disappeared. Items recovered at the scene belonged to 42-year-old Scott Turley, who was believed to be the man who jumped in the river, according to the department.
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The man was last seen floating on his back in the area of the U.S. Coast Guard dock.
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