East Hampton Town Police are “cautiously optimistic” the body that washed on shore in Amagansett on Tuesday is that of a Chinese national who disappeared while kayaking in Long Island Sound earlier this month.
Fengquan Guan, 33, of Beijing, China, was reported missing on May 9 by a friend he was visiting in Milford, Connecticut, after he had taken a kayak out on the Sound around 11 a.m. and did not return after several hours, according to reports from the U.S. Coast Guard. His kayak was found in Southold on May 11, but Coast Guard officials suspended the search that night after there was still no sign of a body.
Detective Sergeant Chris Anderson of the East Hampton Town Police said the Suffolk County medical examiner’s office is trying to identify the... more
Fengquan Guan, 33, of Beijing, China, was reported missing on May 9 by a friend he was visiting in Milford, Connecticut, after he had taken a kayak out on the Sound around 11 a.m. and did not return after several hours, according to reports from the U.S. Coast Guard. His kayak was found in Southold on May 11, but Coast Guard officials suspended the search that night after there was still no sign of a body.
Detective Sergeant Chris Anderson of the East Hampton Town Police said the Suffolk County medical examiner’s office is trying to identify the... more
