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Monday, June 20, 2011

Rodney Goggins Jr., 20, missing Baltimore City Fire Department cadet found in Liberty Reservoir


Rodney Goggins Jr., 20, Baltimore City Fire Department cadet found in Liberty Reservoir






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The body of missing Baltimore City Fire Department cadet in training, Rodney Goggins Jr., 20, was found this afternoon in Liberty Reservoir. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2011/06/body-of-missing-baltimore-city-fire.html 


According to information from a Carroll County Sheriff’s Office information release by Major Phillip S. Kasten, it was shortly after 2 p.m., Sunday afternoon when boaters summons Baltimore City Watershed Rangers, who were patrolling the reservoir, and reported a floating body near the shoreline south of the Liberty Road bridge.

Upon arrival the rangers “located a partially decomposed body in a remote area of dense shoreline vegetation and summonsed Sheriff’s Deputies and Rescue Dive Teams from the Gamber Volunteer Fire Company to assist,” according to Kasten.

Sunday afternoon, sheriff’s investigators did not locate any obvious signs of trauma on Goggin’s body, according to Kasten.  The body has been transported to the State Medical Examiners Office for an autopsy.

The investigation continues.  Carroll County Sheriff’s Office investigators are working closely with the Baltimore County Police in their investigation of the events leading to Goggin’s death. 

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Detective Corporal Carlos Bustos of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office at 410-386-2900, or the Anonymous TIPS Hotline at 1-888-399-TIPP. 

The story so far:

According to an June 2, 2011 article on Westminster Patch by Valerie Bonk, Marc Shapiro, and Diana Soliwon,Goggins had been reported missing by family members on Monday, May 30, 2011  According to Tosha Bundy, his girlfriend’s cousin, the last time he spoke to his girlfriend was late Sunday, May 29. http://westminster.patch.com/articles/video-family-friends-gather-while-officials-search-for-fire-recruit-rodney-goggins-jr#video-6380144

He had visited a friend, according to a June 6, 2011 update on Westminster Patch, [http://westminster.patch.com/articles/officials-search-liberty-reservoir-for-missing-baltimore-firefighter-recruit] on Kenwood Avenue in Baltimore City late Sunday, May 29, and his friend told police he left her home late that evening and he had not been seen since, police said.  He also did not show up to work for his training with the Baltimore City Fire Department on Tuesday, May 31, according to Lt. Robert McCullough, spokesman for Baltimore County police.

Goggins had been the subject of a large, multi-agency search after Baltimore County Police discovered his 2000 black Buick parked unattended along the shoulder on the Liberty Road adjacent to the Reservoir on Liberty Road Wednesday, June 1.

As friends and family members lined the street at the entrance to the Liberty Reservoir boat dock in Eldersburg Thursday, June 2; several state, county and city officials searched water and land around the reservoir, according to an June 2, 2011 article on Westminster Patch by Valerie Bonk, Marc Shapiro, and Diana Soliwon. http://westminster.patch.com/articles/video-family-friends-gather-while-officials-search-for-fire-recruit-rodney-goggins-jr#video-6380144

The Maryland State Police 137th Academy Class, in week 11 of its training, was on hand to assist in a ground search June 2, said Elena Russo, a state police spokesperson.

Other organizations, according to a June 6, 2011 update on Westminster Patch by Valerie Bonk, Marc Shapiro, and Diana Soliwon; assisting in the investigation included: the Baltimore City Fire Department and its dive team, the Anne Arundel County Fire Department dive team, the Sykesville Freedom District Volunteer Fire Department, the Gamber & Community Fire Company dive team, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the Maryland State Police, the Liberty Road Volunteer Fire Company, the Baltimore City Office of Emergency Management and the Baltimore City Watershed Rangers. http://westminster.patch.com/articles/officials-search-liberty-reservoir-for-missing-baltimore-firefighter-recruit

Dive teams used sonar technology to search the floor of the reservoir, said Sgt. Christopher Davala of Maryland State Police's underwater recovery team. http://westminster.patch.com/articles/officials-search-liberty-reservoir-for-missing-baltimore-firefighter-recruit

"A side-scan sonar … actually takes a picture of the bottom and gives us a relay picture—basically a video—of what the bottom looks like, of which the body would show up if it's on the bottom," he said.

On the ground, several officials combed the area in search of Goggins and evidence.

"Maryland State Police [and] our recruits have done surveillance in and throughout the woods," Cartwright said last week. "And unfortunately there's been no positive results at this point."

Maryland State Police took the lead in the investigation, Davala said. Officials and volunteers from the Baltimore City Fire Department, Baltimore County Police, the Baltimore County K-9 unit, Maryland Department of Natural Resources and others were also on the scene last week.

By June 6, police had not found any new developments in the case after police and fire officials searched the Liberty Reservoir’s water and woods the previous week to no avail. http://westminster.patch.com/articles/officials-search-liberty-reservoir-for-missing-baltimore-firefighter-recruit

"As we canvassed the Liberty Reservoir, we ruled out every significant finding utilizing state-of-the-art HD sonar technology provided by local law enforcement, fire department and a subject matter expert from Marine Sonic Technologies in Virginia," Kevin Cartwright, spokesman for the Baltimore City Fire Department, said via e-mail.

On June 6, it was reported that Baltimore City Watershed Rangers would continue to perform water and land surveillances for any sign of Goggins and the Baltimore County Police Missing Persons Division would stay in touch with his family and pursue leads as they develop, Cartwright said.http://westminster.patch.com/articles/officials-search-liberty-reservoir-for-missing-baltimore-firefighter-recruit

Then on June 10, 2011, Westminster Patch reported “Search Scaled Back for Rodney Goggins Jr. - The investigation into the disappearance of the Baltimore fire recruit from Randallstown has yielded few answers,” by Diana Soliwon. 

“Ten days have passed since family members first reported Rodney Goggins Jr.'s disappearance.  The Baltimore City fire recruit and Randallstown native… Hundreds gathered at the high school for a prayer vigil Tuesday, according to an ABC2 report... 



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