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The body of a missing British tourist was found on top of a Chicago train on Tuesday afternoon.
The body of a missing British tourist visiting the United States has been found on top of a commuter train in suburban Chicago after a mysterious death.
Ademola Owolana was last seen on Saturday morning at a club on the Windy City’s far South Side, where he is said to have drunkenly asked his relative to give him car keys.
Sheriff Akinoso told ABC 7 that he didn’t give over the keys because of Owolana’s state and the fact that he can’t legally drive in the U.S. on his visit from London with his mother.
The answer sent the 26-year-old jogging off into the night, Akinoso said.
His family searched desperately for the missing tourist, who did not have his cell phone or passport, until a body matching his description was found on top of a Metra train in a storage yard on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the family confirmed that the body was Owolana’s.
The storage yard, next to tracks that carry passengers to and from the southern Chicago suburbs, is about one mile away from the club that the young Londoner left.
Fox 32 Chicago“It appears he came in contact with energized lines,” Metra spokeswoman Meg Reile told DNA Info. “We have no idea how long [the body] has been there.”
The facility is closed to the public and electricity was not running through the train, though a charge was going through wires above the cars.
Source and credits: Fox 32 Chicago, ABC 7, Nydailynews