METRO DIGEST || Remains identified as missing Farmdale man

Identity confirmed

ERIE, PA.

The Erie County coroner reported that an autopsy completed Saturday confirmed that the remains found Friday on the shore of Presque Bay in Lake Erie are those of John Peters of Farmdale, Ohio, who was reported missing Feb. 28.

According to the autopsy, Peters, 91, died of terminal aquatic immersion, which means that he could have died either from drowning or hypothermia, 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, reported. Peters was identified by the clothing he was wearing and medical stents in his body.

His remains were found just east of where his van was discovered hanging off the edge of a dock along Lake Erie on March 1. Until his van was found, the last signs of Peters was at a Shell station in Orwell, Ohio, and the record of a credit card purchase made at the Sparkle Market in Cortland, Ohio.

Crash closed I-680

YOUNGSTOWN

Interstate 680 southbound near the 711 connector was closed for about five hours Saturday after a truck carrying crushed vehicles overturned at about 7:30 a.m., . Youngstown police and firefighters were called to the scene as well as a crew from the Ohio Department of Transportation to help police clean up the oil and debris spread across the road, reported 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner. The accident is under investigation.

Martin Luther King commemoration

YOUNGSTOWN

The Baptist Pastors Council will sponsor a community commemoration honoring the leadership legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at noon on the anniversary of his assassination Tuesday in the rotunda of the Mahoning County Courthouse, 120 Market St.

The civil-rights icon was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. James Earl Ray was convicted of King’s murder. Ray died in prison in 1998.

The Rev. Gena Thornton of Youngstown, former pastor of Grace AME Church in Warren, is the keynote speaker. MLK Testament of Hope Scholarship recipients also will be recognized.

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