The body of former LSU Tiger and current New England Patriot football player Marquise Hill has apparently been discovered in Lake Pontchartrain.
Officials with the State Department of Wildlife and Fisheries say a body turned up Monday morning in the seawall area near the Lakefront Airport, where Hill went missing Sunday night after a jet ski accident.
Coast Guard officials said Monday afternoon they were still waiting for confirmation from the state on the identity of the body.
The Coast Guard early this morning added an aircraft to the search for Hill on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Thomas Atkinson says Hill and woman fell off a jet ski last night near the Seabrook Bridge. "A good Samaritan on the bank heard yells for help," Atkinson says, "They found a woman clinging onto a piling near the shore."
The woman told the boaters that Hill had been with her. "As soon as they spotted him, they attempted to maneuver their boat into position to pick him up and lost sight of him." Atkinson says. Hill disappeared in the darkness around 9:00pm.
The Coast Guard used boats in the water and people on land to try and find Hill, but could not locate him Sunday night. Atkinson says neither Hill nor the woman were wearing a life jacket.
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