A body found in a pond Saturday morning is believed to be that of Nathan Tracy, a 19-year-old Trenton man who disappeared Wednesday night after crashing his car at a nearby condo complex, Pittsfield Township police said.
Director of Public Safety Matt Harshberger said police received a call at 10:38 a.m. from a maintenance worker at the Weatherstone Condos on Oak Valley Road about a body in a retaining pond. When police arrived, the body had similar clothes to what Tracy was last seen wearing, Harshberger said.
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Dental records will have to be used to confirm the identification, Harshberger said, but “we do believe that it is him.”
About 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, witnesses told police a driver in a Ford Focus crashed into a carport and a parked Ford truck, heavily damaging both. Witnesses saw a man matching Tracy’s description get out of the car, come over to talk to them, then return to the car to remove some items before wandering off, Harshberger said. It’s unclear what he and the witnesses talked about.
“By the time we got there, he was nowhere to be seen,” Harshberger said of the incident. “How, or why, he got into the pond, we’re not sure.”
Based on witness statements and items found in the car, Harshberger said police believe that Tracy was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Before the crash, Tracy had been with a friend from Ann Arbor, police said.
An autopsy is scheduled for today in Washtenaw County.
Tracy was a 2011 graduate of Trenton High School and was studying engineering at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, said his uncle John McKay of Del Rio, Texas.
McKay, reached Saturday night at the home of Tracy’s parents, said the teen had lived there along with his older brother and younger sister. After graduating from college, Tracy hoped to become an engineer like his father, McKay said.
“He was a very outgoing young man, very involved with sports and the church — so, a pretty good kid,” McKay said.
