Officials have identified a body found in a Downtown Marina as a missing 64-year-old boater.
JERSEY CITY -- The man found dead in a downtown marina over the weekend has been identified as a missing 64-year-old boater.
Divers from the Jersey City Emergency Service Unit recovered the body of Roger Brown, of East Orange, Sunday afternoon following a two-day search at Liberty Harbor Marina, Jersey City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said.
At about 10:30 p.m. Friday, a 49-year-old Jersey City man spotted an unattended sailboat floating in the water at the landing, where his own boat was docked. The sailboat's motor was still running when officers arrived, according to police report from the incident.
The unattended boat -- named Veronica -- is registered to a 39-year-old New York woman. The owner arrived at the scene and said Brown left a New York City dock at about 8:30 p.m. and was expected to dock in Jersey City, the report states.
Officials from the U.S. Coast Guard and NYPD helped with the initial search for Brown on Friday night. Morrill said officers from Jersey City continued the search for the missing boater with an underwater robot until his body was recovered at about 4 p.m. Sunday.
A medical examiner classified Brown's death as accidental. The cause of death was determined to be "drowning with contributory cause of a head injury consistent with a fall," Morrill said.