Body Found on Beach in Setauket Harbor ID’d as Plane Crash Victim

By Timothy Bolger Posted on April 11, 2016

A man found dead on the beach in Setauket Harbor on Monday morning was identified as someone who has been missing since a small, single-engine plane crash two months ago, Suffolk County police said.

Gerson Salmon-Negron, 23, of Queens, was found shortly after 9 a.m., police said. Three others were rescued from the crash.

Homicide Squad detectives are continuing the investigation.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.