US sailor goes missing after leaving Illinois bar; search reaches 'standstill' as mother pleads for help

Illinois constabulary investigating nan mysterious disappearance of a young U.S. sailor past seen walking away from a barroom astir a week agone said Friday nan hunt is astatine a "standstill." 

Seamus Gray, 21, vanished successful nan early greeting hours of March 18 pursuing his departure from a barroom connected Genesee Street successful Waukegan, constabulary say.  

Waukegan Police Cmdr. Scott Chastain told reporters Friday nan past clip Gray was captured connected surveillance footage he was successful "close proximity" to nan harbor successful Waukegan on Lake Michigan. But exhaustive searches connected onshore and water, including pinch nan thief of 100 chap Navy personnel, person travel up empty. 

"If he is successful nan h2o and that is what happened, it whitethorn beryllium days aliases weeks earlier nan assemblage would travel backmost up," Chastain said. 

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The Waukegan Police Department said Gray is assigned to Naval Station Great Lakes. (Waukegan Police Department )

"The problem is pinch nan acold upwind correct now and nan acold temperatures successful nan water, if personification does spell successful nan water, they are not coming up correct away," he added. "I was told by our occurrence section nan gases successful nan assemblage won’t travel retired correct distant because of nan cold, which makes them enactment nether nan h2o a small spot longer than normal." 

Chastain hailed nan U.S. Navy’s thief successful nan search, saying law enforcement is "very appreciative of that" and "I cognize nan family was arsenic good to spot his chap Navy men travel retired present and search." 

But "right now, we are conscionable benignant of astatine a standstill," he said, pleading to nan nationalist for accusation for anyone who whitethorn person travel into interaction pinch Gray aft 2 a.m. nan greeting of March 18. 

"With nan currents, if personification did spell underwater, it could return them arsenic acold as Chicago aliases each nan measurement retired to Milwaukee, and that has happened successful nan past. That is nan challenges we look pinch Lake Michigan," Chastain added. 

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Seamus Gray astatine nan intersection of Sheridan Road and Washington Street successful Waukegan astatine astir 1:40 a.m. March 18 aft leaving a bar. He has not been heard from since. (Waukegan Police Department)

On Thursday, constabulary released surveillance footage showing Gray being progressive successful an evident altercation extracurricular nan Ibiza barroom successful Waukegan soon earlier his disappearance, according to Fox32 Chicago. 

The station, citing police, says Gray visited nan barroom earlier successful nan evening connected St. Patrick’s Day earlier returning astir closing clip and being refused admission. 

Ibiza Nightclub said Wednesday it was cooperating pinch nan constabulary investigation and that it would thief "any measurement we can" to find Gray.

The video, Fox32Chicago says, shows Gray speaking to a group of group extracurricular nan barroom before he is held down by an individual connected nan ground. 

"We’re alert of nan video from extracurricular of nan bar, and our investigators are moving pinch [the] Naval Criminal Investigative Service to place group who mightiness beryllium connected that video," nan position quoted Waukegan Deputy Chief Brian Mullen arsenic saying Thursday. 

Kerry Gray, mother of missing U.S. sailor Seamus Gray, speaks Thursday. (WSL-TV via APTN)

Police said "Gray has not been seen aliases spoken to since leaving nan bar" and that Gray, "a personnel of nan United States Navy assigned to Naval Station Great Lakes, did not study backmost astatine his assigned time." 

Gray’s mother Kerry has traveled from Florida to Illinois to thief successful nan hunt efforts. 

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"I would for illustration everybody’s thief to find my son," she said, according to Fox32Chicago. "I’m here, I’m going done dumpsters looking for my son." 

Gray was past seen wearing a pink/red garment and pants. He stands 6 feet, 3 inches gangly and weighs 170 pounds pinch brownish hair, bluish eyes and tattoos connected his near limb and rib cage.