A body retrieved from a New York City waterway has been identified as missing Goldman Sachs staffer, John Castic.
“They have found his body and confirmed it’s him,” his father, Jeffrey Castic, told Fox News. “It appears to have been death by misadventure. His wallet and phone were found on him.”
Castic was last seen departing a concert held at The Brooklyn Mirage, in the East Williamsburg neighborhood, Saturday morning around 2:30.
Castic was a controllers team member at Goldman Sachs, working with its asset and wealth management business, according to a report from Reuters.
“The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death,” a New York Police Department spokesperson said.
The 27-year-old’s body was found floating in a section of Newtown Creek called English Kills at 11:09 a.m. Tuesday by a passerby who called 911, according to police. NYPD Harbor police pulled the body from the water.
“He was so smart but, in the end, he did something dumb, and it cost him,” the father said in an interview with Fox News. “We think he might have been impaired, we do not know, and it was just a lapse of judgment.”
Castic’s employer issued a statement expressing sorrow about the young investment banker’s death.
“We are all shocked and saddened to learn of John’s tragic passing,” Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said in a statement.
“Our thoughts are with his mother Dawn, his father Jeff, and his entire family at this very difficult time.”
The 27-year-old investment analyst is not the first person to disappear from The Brooklyn Mirage venue.
Another young man Karl Clemente vanished from the same location June 11 and was later found deceased in Newtown Creek.
Clemente’s father questioned whether his son’s death was really an accident and wondered if the two cases could be linked.
“There’s something weird here,” Alex Clemente said. “There might be some connection.”
