Police identify body pulled from water in Barrington

March 25, 2018 4:47 pm

By: Chloe Leshner

Email: cleshner@abc6.com

Twitter: @chloeleshner

BARRINGTON, R.I. (WLNE) — Police have identified the body of a man that was pulled from the waters of 100 Acre Cove in Barrington. This is the second body pulled from waters in that area.

Warren Police say the body found is of William Krah, 34, of Warren. They say the death is not suspicious as of now.

Barrington fire officials pulled Krah’s body out of the waters after a driver on Route 114 spotted him on an island in 100 Acre Cove.

“It’s possible that’s where the body was washed up and caught on the small little island area, we’ve had some storms the last week or 2 where the tide has been extremely high,” said Chief John LaCross.

The waters were too shallow for firefighters to use a boat so they walked out about 500 feet and used a raft to bring the body in.

“The victim was clothed, he did have pants on an appeared to be a shirt but it appeared the person had been in the water for sometime. At least a month if not 2 months,” said LaCross.

The Medical Examiner is working to determine a cause of death.

“We work hand in hand with the Medical Examiner and they will first hopefully identify the body, who it is, and we’ll notify next of kin which is very sad. If there’s any foul play or what caused the death we’ll look into that if there’s any criminal proceedings,” he said.

On Friday, another body was pulled from the waters near Colt State Park but police don’t believe the 2 are related.

“Very unusual. Very sad that 2 people have been retrieved from the waters and it’s tough on our first responders as well, the firefighters, police officers, people on scene seeing the condition of this body and eventually making death notifications,” said LaCross.