GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The Greensboro Police Department spoke at 4:15 p.m. Friday after the body of a missing 26-year-old man was found in a pond .
An independent underwater recovery team found Laequan Tyriq Little , 26, of Greensboro, and his vehicle in a retention pond at an apartment complex on the 1400 block of Bridford Parkway on Jan. 13. He had been reported missing on Dec. 31.
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Two independent divers, Adam Brown and Jeremy Sides, say they gave police a vital tip to help locate a missing Greensboro man. They are part of the nonprofit Rapid Compassion Collective, a group focused on helping families with missing loved ones by searching lakes, ponds and rivers with their own equipment.
Brown and Sides tried to help the family hold on to hope by getting to work on their case after Little’s mom reached out to them. The divers discovered Little’s vehicle in the pond while using an underwater drone. They then called Greensboro police Monday morning, and a team of Guilford County underwater divers pulled both the vehicle and Little’s body out of the water.
Little’s mother said that officers told her the pond was too shallow for a car to go into, and that family and friends helping search for Little saw tire marks in the grass near the pond…