A body found at the north side of Belmont Harbor at Lake Michigan Thursday afternoon has been identified to be Christopher Evans, a 25-year-old student of the Loyola University Chicago.
The Chicago Police Department's Marine Unit was called to the harbor around 9:00 a.m., after a woman reported seeing a body floating on the water.
The police officials called off the search for the missing student, a couple of hours after the body was pulled out from the harbor saying that Evans was 'no longer unaccounted for.'
The body was taken to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office for an autopsy.
Evans went missing Sunday morning when he was at Roscoe's Tavern attending a pride event with friends. His friends claim that he began acting strangely in the bar before running east on Roscoe Street in the direction of the lake about 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
His friends found his car on Monday parked near the crossroads of Broadway and Cornelia Ave, not far from Belmont Harbor.
Police suspect that someone must have mixed something in Evans drink at Roscoe's Tavern on Sunday.
"I really think something really bad happened to him this weekend," Anita Evans, his mother said.
Raymond Khananis, an employee of 7-Eleven, a store located across the street from the bar, thinks that between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Sunday, Evans came to the store to ask for his lost cell phone.
"The second time he walked in, he asked permission to check our trash can, to see if he may have accidentally dropped it in the trash can," Khananis said.
Khananis said that a security video has been handed over to the police.
Evans was an MBA student at the Quinlan School of Business and was also a financial analyst at Loyola in the Financial Services Office.
