SEBEWAING TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WWJ) - The search for a lost 21-year-old man who called 911 asking for help has come to a tragic end.
Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson said search crews located the body of Parker Haire around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in waist-deep water surrounded by reeds down the Sebewaing River Point. A cause of death wasn't immediately clear.
A search for Haire was launched Tuesday after he called 911 around 7 a.m. and asked for help, saying he was cold, wet and could see a factory. Dispatch lost contact, but plotted Haire's location to the Sebewaing River. Crews responded to the scene and a search ensued, but turned up nothing.
Around midday Tuesday, a Michigan Sugar Company employee reported finding Haire's vehicle stuck in mud near their treatment pond's fence, by the Bay Shore Camp property. Police responded to the scene but found no further signs of Haire.
A search was suspended at nightfall and resumed Wednesday morning.
The sheriff says Haire, a Michigan State University student who lives in Cass City, had attended a New Year's Eve party in the area, but it's unclear how he became lost.
The sheriff says water temperatures were in the mid-thirties and the air temperature was around the teens and mid-twenties.
"Typically in conditions of such, a human being is not able to survive over one hour when in cold water," Hanson said.
An investigation is ongoing.
