ST. CHARLES COUNTY — Police here said Friday that the body retrieved from the Mississippi River earlier this week was that of Logan Hummel, a missing St. Charles Community College student.

Officials had announced on Monday that a man's body had been recovered from the river by a towboat earlier that day.

On Friday, St. Charles County Police Department spokesperson Barry Bayles confirmed that the body pulled from the river near the Chain of Rocks Bridge belonged to Hummel.

Hummel, 18, had been missing since Sept. 3. His vehicle had been found parked on Veterans Memorial Bridge on Highway 364 in St. Charles with his phone, wallet and other belongings inside.

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