Body of missing Downers Grove man found inside submerged car: police

SHARE Body of missing Downers Grove man found inside submerged car: police
screen_shot_2018_11_07_at_6_09_07_pm_e1541635810670.png

A 2009 Toyota Camry | Downers Grove police

A Downers Grove man reported missing last month has been found dead inside a car after it was pulled from a retention pond in the west suburb.

About 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a retention pond near Interstate 355 and Ogden Avenue and found a 2009 Toyota Camry submerged in the water, Downers Grove police said.

A body found inside the sedan was identified as 34-year-old Abumere Eromon, who had been missing since Oct. 20 when he failed to return home from work, according to police.

Abumere Eromon | Downers Grove police

Abumere Eromon | Downers Grove police

Police said the circumstances surrounding Eromon’s disappearance and death remained under investigation. Anyone with information was asked to call investigators at (630) 434-5600.

The Latest
A witness told police they saw a white SUV fleeing the scene.
A pedestrian was in a crosswalk near 2100 W. Armitage Ave. about 10:51 p.m. Saturday when a blue sedan hit the person and fled westbound on Armitage from North Hoyne Avenue, police said.
The weather made the Big Ten championship game anticlimactic, but goal-scoring machine Izzy Scane and the Wildcats won it anyway. That’s just what they do — and an NCAA title defense comes next.
Three men were in the 7900 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue about 5:07 p.m. Sunday when four people with handguns approached and fired shots, police said. One man died. Three others are hospitalized.