BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — A coroner says an Illinois State University graduate student who disappeared before being found dead died from drowning.
Twenty-five-year-old Jelani Day was last seen on Aug. 24. His family in Danville and a faculty member reported him missing after he did not show up for class for several days.
LaSalle County Coroner Richard Ploch says there’s there no evidence of antemortem injury such as manual strangulation, an assault, or gunshot injury.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson has said Day’s case looks similar to other racially motivated killings.
