NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The body of a missing Yale University employee was found on a Long Island shoreline nearly three months after he disappeared in early February, the university said Wednesday.
Anton Sovetov’s body was found Saturday on the North Shore, across the Long Island Sound from New Haven, Connecticut, where Yale is located.
The 44-year-old Russian native was a graphic designer for the Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communications, and worked on various projects, including Yale’s public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic, the university said in a release announcing his death.
Sovetov was last in touch with university colleagues on Feb. 4. The following evening, a security camera captured him leaving Elm City Market in downtown New Haven and walking towards his apartment nearby.
He was reported missing four days later on Feb. 9. Yale said its officers and New Haven police had been investigating his disappearance ever since. Their investigation remains ongoing.
“We will continue to do all we can in the face of this terrible tragedy,” Yale Chief of Police Ronnell Higgins said.
Officials haven’t revealed exactly where Sovetov was found or indicated how he may have ended up there.
The Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office is investigating his cause of death.
“We mourn Anton’s loss,” said Nate Nickerson, Yale’s vice president for communications, in a statement. “Anton was a wonderful, devoted colleague with uncommon talent. His work honored and added to Yale’s legacy of exceptional graphic design. We will miss him dearly.”
Yale is urging anyone with information that could aid in the investigation to contact Yale Police at 203-432-4400, New Haven Police at 203-946-6316, or send an anonymous text tip through the LiveSafe app.
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