NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- A body pulled from Newtown Creek in Brooklyn on Tuesday, is that of a missing Goldman Sachs analyst from Manhattan—the second man in his 20s to go missing and then turn up dead in the creek in recent weeks near the Mirage concert venue.
John Castic's body was seen floating in the waterway, which straddles the Brooklyn–Queens border, shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday, police said. He was pulled from the water in the area of 1100 Grand St.
Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene and he was soon identified as Castic. The medical examiner will determine his cause of death.
Castic's disappearance came just weeks after the remains of a Queens man, Karl Clemente, 27, were found in Newtown Creek after he went missing on the night of June 11. Like Castic, he was last seen at the Mirage.
Police said they don't consider Clemente's death suspicious, but concertgoers have expressed concern online about their safety, with some drawing comparisons to dozens of robberies at Manhattan clubs last year in which patrons were robbed after being drugged, some of them fatally.
Police sources told the Daily News that no injuries were found on Castic's body and that neither death is currently considered a criminal act.
Castic's father, John Castic, told Fox News on Tuesday that his death "appears to have been death by misadventure."
"His wallet and phone were found on him," he said. "He was so smart but, in the end, he did something dumb, and it cost him. We think he might have been impaired, we do not know, and it was just a lapse of judgment."
Clemente's father, who also spoke with Fox, said of the deaths, "There’s something weird here."
"There might be some connection," Alex Clemente said, noting surveillance video shows his son running down a street before he disappeared. "Why was he running? Someone was chasing him. There's something fishy here."
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