‘It’s So Heartbreaking’: Body Of Missing University Of Alabama Student Identified As 20-Year-Old From Mount Airy

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MOUNT AIRY, Md. (WJZ) — A section household gets the quality nary 1 ever wants to hear.

“It’s truthful heartbreaking,” 1 idiosyncratic said.

After respective days of searching, constabulary successful Tuscaloosa, Alabama person recovered the assemblage of Garrett Walker successful a river.

“They are not doing well, to beryllium honest,” said the family’s attorney, Josh Hayes.

Josh Hayes represents Walker’s household and says it’s was a achy confirmation.

“Every time is simply a situation and each time they are conscionable trying to wrapper their caput astir what happened to their lad and marque it done each day,” said Hayes.

Walker was from Mount Airy and a inferior astatine the University of Alabama.

Hayes says the 20-year-old went to the shot crippled connected Saturday and was past spotted leaving a barroom successful Downtown Tuscaloosa aboriginal Sunday morning.

Some of his apparel and a compartment telephone were spotted on the Black Warrior River Bank.

“It’s truthful bittersweet and it’s not thing you perceive astir a batch particularly present astatine UA,” said University of Alabama pupil Garrett Reese.

Search crews utilized boats, drones, and underwater sonar to hunt the country and discovered his assemblage connected Tuesday.

“He was 1 of 4 helium has an older sister and 2 younger duplicate brothers. A tight-knit household and it’s been beauteous unsmooth connected them,” said Hayes.

Walker was studying to go an Aerospace Engineer. He had a passionateness for flying planes and was already an accomplished pilot. His friends adored him.

“My roommate’s woman was truly bully friends with him and it’s truthful bittersweet to spot however she is connected a regular ground since this calamity happened,” said University of Alabama pupil Brooke Baldwin.

With truthful galore questions and inactive nary answers, Hayes says each the household tin bash is clasp connected to the memories.

“It’s an unbelievably bittersweet communicative and what is much important is for Garett to beryllium remembered for however helium lived not for however helium died,” Hayes added.

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The probe is ongoing. Officials are conducting an autopsy and erstwhile they are finished, helium volition beryllium brought backmost present to Maryland for a funeral.