Authorities recovered a body from the Charles River Monday morning, Massachusetts State Police officials said.
State police sent a marine unit to retrieve the body from the water after the Boston University Police Department reported seeing the body at about 8:15 a.m., said state police spokesman Todd Nolan.
Nolan said preliminary investigations indicate the body is that of an “older white male.”
Suffolk District Attorney spokesman Jake Wark confirmed that the body was not that of any missing college student, dispelling rumors that police could have found the body of missing Boston Architectural College graduate student Jonathan Dailey.
Dailey, 23, of North Carolina, was last seen on Oct. 2 around Gardner Street in Brighton. He is a second year student at Boston Architectural College.
The Massachusetts state troopers who are assigned to the Suffolk District Attorney will investigate the incident, Nolan said.
Investigators are continuing to identify the male, whose remains were transported to the State Police Marine Unit, according to an email statement from the Suffolk District Attorney’s office.
Sometime after 8 a.m. on Monday, two employees of the Boston University Sailing Pavilion spotted the body in the water and notified the BUPD, according to the statement.
A medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death, which was not immediately clear.
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