The Porter County
Coroner’s Office is working to identify a body found by a fisherman on
Friday, May 31, in Lake Michigan near the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor.
The body was
recovered from the lake at 8:51 p.m. by a U.S. Coast Guard crew.
The body is that of
a white male, the Coroner’s Office said.
An autopsy has been
scheduled to determine the cause and manner of death.
Assisting the
Coroner’s Office is the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Responding
to the scene were the Portage Fire Department and Ogden Dunes Police
Department.