On July 11th, at around just after 12:30 pm, Chief Todd Taylor, of the Chikaming Township Police Department was dispatched to an address on Victor Ave., concerning a recovery on the beach of Lake Michigan. Chief Taylor arrived on scene and met with Deputy Andrea Crosby, of the Berrien County Sheriff’s Department, New Buffalo Township patrol, on the beach. On the beach was the body of an unidentified black male subject. While conducting the investigation, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Officer Tyler Brock arrived on scene and identified the body as the missing 17-year-old subject, Rahem L. Mason, who went missing at the Michigan City,Indiana Beach, on July 6th. An autopsy will be performed at the Western Michigan University School of Medicine on July 12th.