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Car, And Body, Discovered Below Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim

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By NPT Staff - February 24th, 2016
Lipan Point, Grand Canyon National Park/NPS

A man evidently was killed when the car he apparently was in went off the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park near Lipan Point (pictured)/NPS

The body of a California man has been recovered 200 feet below the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, while the car he apparently was in lies another 800 feet lower in the canyon.

Park officials said the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call Sunday evening from a local resident reporting a car below the rim near Lipan Point on Desert View Drive. On Monday, the National Park Service helicopter crew "located a vehicle approximately 1000 feet below the rim and a body about 200 feet below the rim. Rangers hiked in today and recovered the body of a California male. Identification of the man is being withheld, pending notification of next of kin."

How the car, and the man, went off the South Rim is being investigated by the National Park Service and the Coconino County Medical Examiner. 

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Submitted by Theresa Karlowitsch on April 11, 2016 - 1:47am.

this report is regarding my brother, Emile K. Prevost Jr.  Could you please report on toxicology, that should be done by now.  How and when will the car be brought up/out of canyon.  An update please.  Thank you.  


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