Body Recovered By Joliet Fire Department ID'd

JOLIET, IL - The Joliet Fire Department reported that Saturday afternoon's response call to a retention pond in the Wesmere subdivision involved a death. The fire department's Station 9 district sent its divers and a boat along with engine 9 and truck 9 for a water rescue operation. Later in the afternoon, the Joliet Fire Department took to its Facebook page to announce that "This incident unfortunately was a recovery and not a rescue. All units are clear and no further information is available at this time."

One person later posted on the Joliet Fire Department's Facebook page that the man "pulled from the lake" was an "ex military man (who) went off his meds and has been missing since Monday."

By 8 p.m., the Will County Coroner's Office reported on its press hotline that the body has been identified as 57-year-old Kevin McKenna of Plainfield. He was pronounced dead at 3:25 p.m. The coroner's office will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death on Monday.

The recovery of McKenna's body occurred in the 2000 block of Wesmere Lakes Drive at the retention pond.

On Saturday, a Joliet Fire Department battalion chief told Patch fire crews were called to the Wesmere subdivision around 2 p.m. Firefighters eventually learned that the man whose body was found had been missing for about five days and that members of his family had reported him missing.

The body was found about five feet from the shoreline of the retention pond, he said. Firefighters surmised that the man had been dead for sometime and that he may have lived in the nearby area.

The coroner's office said that the Will County Sheriff's Department is handling the investigation. Patch will update this story next week as more information becomes available.

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