Found Deceased MI - Hunter Klompstra, 18, Coopersville, 1 Jan 2020

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18-year-old Hunter Klompstra was last seen around 2 a.m. Wednesday at a friend’s house in the Coopersville area. His friends and family have not been to contact him since that time.

He is described as around 5-foot-5, 145 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. He was seen wearing blue jeans, a grey hoodie and dark brown coat.

Deputies search for missing Ottawa Co. teen

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JAN 2, 2020
Volunteers join deputies to search for missing Coopersville teen
  • Deputies say HK was at a New Year's Eve party and walked away around 2 a.m. from a house that backs up to the Grand River.
  • LE does not believe his disappearance is suspicious but they are not ruling anything out at this time.
  • At least 75 volunteers have joined family and LE to look for him, according to the Coopersville Informed Facebook page.
  • Michigan State Police are assisting by with the flyover of the river and robots in the water to check the river basin.
  • They're not planning to send a dive team into the river because the water is too dangerous. However, they will continue to search by air, water and foot.
  • "We will continue this operation through at least the daylight hours [Thursday], and reassess where we’re at. If there’s still no location made then we’ll go from there," Bennett said.
  • Anybody with information is asked to call Ottawa County Central Dispatch at 1-800-249-0911 or Silent Observer.
Teen reported missing in Ottawa County
  • Investigators said HK was attending a New Year’s Eve party in the 6100 block of Leonard Street when he left the residence on foot.
  • He did not return home and his friends and family have been unable to contact him since then.
  • Searches have been conducted using officers, K-9 units, volunteer search and rescue units and Michigan State Police Aviation personnel.
 
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JAN 2, 2020
Police searching for missing teenager
  • Family members called police after not being able to reach HK by late Wed. afternoon.
  • “We walked the area” Wednesday night, Capt. Bennett said.
  • LE also checked the route to the home of one of HK’s friends, about 2 miles away, and found no sign of HK.
  • By late Thurs morning, the MSP aviation team — including helicopter and drones — was searching the area.
  • Volunteers were assigned to teams with experienced SAR members to cover greater areas of the search.
  • Bennett said they were also using robotics and possibly boats to search the Grand River in the area.
  • EK said it was unlike his brother not to make some kind of contact with someone.
  • “He’s been gone a long time,” Ethan said late Thursday morning as he waited for his turn to head out with a search team. “I’m really worried about him.”
  • “All these people at this party and nobody sees him leave,” Ethan agonized.
  • The home base for the search was Gull Lake Marine, where HK had been working since June. HK was a yard man at the dry land marina located on 48th Avenue, north of I-96.
  • HK was scheduled to work Thursday.
  • “He always texted me if he was running late or having trouble getting here,” Rose said. “This isn’t like him.”
  • He went to the party alone and left alone, the Captain added.
  • There were about 20 people at the house located on the Grand River side of Leonard Road during the party, Bennett said. All of them have been interviewed and all have been cooperative.
  • Bennett said the search would likely start again Friday if HK has not been found.
 
In the search for Hunter Klompstra along the Grand River in Polkton Twp., sheriff’s deputies and detectives searched the area on Friday by boat and with dive team personnel. Detectives continue to speak to those that were in attendance at the party that Klompstra was present at.

Tracking dogs have been used on several occasions throughout the last few days. Authorities will continue this search in the coming week.

Ottawa County Sherriff's Office gives update on missing persons search
 
JAN 7, 2020
‘Desperately looking for answers,’ family says of missing West Michigan teen
More than a hundred volunteers again took to fields and woods near Coopersville to search for a teen missing since New Year’s Day.

[...]

“He told his parents that he would be home and then, the next morning he didn’t show up and they couldn’t get a hold of him. They finally called the police to report him missing and they’ve been searching ever since,” she said.

She said Klompstra got a ride to the party from friends and everyone who went was supposed to spend the night there. She didn’t know why he left.

[...]

The search Tuesday started near a cell phone tower off 48th Avenue north of Leonard Street. According to family, the last signal from Klompstra’s cell phone came within 1.7 miles of the tower.

[...]

 
JAN 7, 2020
Volunteers organize to continue search for missing Coopersville teen
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The cell phone belonging to 18-year-old Hunter Klompstra, pinged off of the cell tower between 2 and 3 a.m. on New Year's Day. The tower’s radius spans about 1.7 miles.

[...]

He left the party around 2 a.m. on Jan. 1 and didn’t tell anyone where he was going. Ottawa County Sheriff's Office Deputies and other volunteers have been searching for signs of Klompstra since then, using K9s, robotic technology in the water and drones.

[...]

Volunteers were on foot, horseback and many brought metal detectors to search for his cell phone or anything else that may lead to Klompstra’s whereabouts.

[...]
 
JAN 7, 2020
Search parties span out looking for missing Coopersville teen
Friends and family of an 18-year-old who has been missing since he left a friend's New Year's Eve party spent Tuesday afternoon combing the area he is believed to have gone missing in.

[...]

“We feel we have cooperation of the people involved at this point. We feel we’re getting our questions answered by the people who had last been in contact with him," Capt Bennett said Tuesday. He says they have no reason to suspect any sort of foul play at this point in the investigation.

So while police work the case from behind the scenes via search warrants and interviews with those who were at the party, those who love and miss Hunter are doing anything they can.

[...]

The Sheriff's Department spent some of Monday doing their own search of the same area that volunteers were canvassing Tuesday. Though they had far less people, police brought some dogs to see what they could find. They also spent some time developing a strategy for moving ahead with their ground search.

Capt Bennett says the department is eager to get their dive unit into a small nearby body of water to see what they are able to locate. The weather has not yet allowed them to do this.

[...]
 
More than a hundred volunteers again took to fields and woods near Coopersville to search.

The search Tuesday started near a cell phone tower off 48th Avenue north of Leonard Street. According to family, the last signal from Klompstra’s cell phone came within 1.7 miles of the tower.

At least 20 people on horseback joined in Tuesday’s search, as well as volunteers equipped with metal detectors.

He was wearing eyeglasses, carrying a pocket knife and also had the cell phone.

‘Desperately looking for answers,’ family says of missing West Michigan teen
 
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