Body Found Near San Clemente High School

Members of an Orange County sheriff’s search and rescue team today found the body of a male in a flood control channel next to San Clemente High School but they have not called off their search for a missing 22-year-old last seen a week ago, an official said.

Nick Stevens, a landscape architect, was last seen in the area where the body was found Saturday.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue K9 team found the body at about 12:30 p.m. in the flood channel between a fast food restaurant and the baseball field of San Clemente High School, at 700 Avenida Pico, the sheriff’s department’s Carrie Braun said.

“The incident is being handled as a suspicious death investigation, but a manner of death has not been determined,” Braun said.

“The investigation into Stevens is ongoing until we can determine if he is the decedent,” Braun told City News Service.

Stevens was last seen Nov. 6 at the 7-Eleven at 1802 N. E Camino Real, she said. “Since that time, homicide investigators, Search and Rescue, and air support have worked together to locate Stevens.”

City News Service