The body of a St. James teen who has been missing since Jan. 9 was recovered in the water off Red Hook, Brooklyn, last week, Suffolk police said in a statement on Thursday.
Thomas Medlin’s body was found on Saturday, police said, but his remains were not identified until Thursday. The 15-year-old left the Stony Brook School on Jan. 9 and was seen at Grand Central Station that afternoon.
Surveillance video recorded Medlin on the pedestrian walkway on the Manhattan Bridge at 7:06 p.m. that evening. The last activity on his cellphone was at 7:09 p.m. A surveillance camera recorded a splash in the water about a minute later.
Hundreds of people fanned out across lower Manhattan in the weeks after Medlin disappeared, handing out fliers and hanging posters seeking information about his whereabouts.
Medlin’s case also inspired countless posts on social media outlets, not only from family and friends, but by thousands of strangers and amateur sleuths as well.
Medlin’s mother, Eva Yan, has described the teen as a bright, intellectually mature young man who loved tennis and piano.