After discovering last week that 13-year-old Corey Brown was missing from his Marshalltown, Iowa home, police reports confirm that the body found beneath the town’s cell tower is his. All indications suggest that Brown attempted to climb the tower and fell. His parents first reported his disappearance on Tuesday, January 22.
The family indicated there had been an argument the night before about a cell phone.
Refusing to cite a reason for the boy’s decision to climb the tower, Marshalltown Police Chief Mike Tupper told the Times Republican, “We don’t know why Corey was climbing the tower, what happened, how he fell off the tower. All I know is that he was there and he fell. Nobody was there to talk to Corey, so we obviously can’t know his frame of mind.” Tupper added that preliminary autopsy reports suggest that Brown suffered the fatal head injury on the same night that he went missing.
In an attempt to discourage intruders, the cell tower site is surrounded by fencing. Police have confirmed that Brown climbed over the fence prior to climbing the communications tower and falling. The Marshalltown School district has released an official statement offering support and condolences to the students and community. “We want to just continue to pray for Corey and the Brown family,” Police Chief Tupper said.
February 1, 2019
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