Found Deceased Canada - Private Michal Beaman, 22, didn't return to base from a nightclub, Kingston, 24 Jan 2020

[GuyfromCanada]

A Canadian Army member has gone missing, according to Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Kingston.


Military police and over 250 Canadian Armed Forces members have been sent out in the city of Kingston to look for Pte. Michal Beaman, 22, who was last seen in Kingston on Friday night at The Spot Nightclub on Division Street.

More at Missing Canadian Armed Forces member last seen at nightclub: CFB Kingston

 

[GuyfromCanada]

The club is located at 155 Division St Google Maps

Looks like a busy business/residential area.

 

[Vail]

The club is located at 155 Division St Google Maps

Looks like a busy business/residential area.

Well, the river is 8 blocks away with very shallow banks. It looks like parts of the base are right on the river as well. Hopefully they can find him on CCTV!

 

[dotr]

Missing Canadian Armed Forces member last seen at nightclub: CFB Kingston
''Brewer said military police have security footage of Beaman leaving The Spot in Kingston on Friday evening after speaking with a woman, then following her out of the bar. Brewer claims she was told that after some time, the woman came back to the bar without Beaman.

CFB Kingston did not respond right away when asked to confirm Brewer’s statements, but Gamblin did say that Beaman’s friends reported seeing him speak to a young woman before he disappeared.

“That was the last his course mates who were with him saw him again,” Gamblin told Global News in an interview.

Gamblin says the very last hint of Beaman’s whereabouts was a ping from his cellphone on Princess Street farther away from the nightclub.

Military, Kingston and provincial police partner in training exercise at CFB Kingston
Military, Kingston and provincial police partner in training exercise at CFB Kingston
He noted that the search for Beaman first began with a thorough search of the base, with hundreds of military members looking for the missing man. On Monday, the search party extended to the city of Kingston, including parking lots and alleyways in the downtown area.

Gamblin also noted that from speaking to those who know Beaman, his disappearance is very unusual.''

 

[cobalt sky]

It sounds to me like he lived at the military base across the river? I wonder which way he was headed on Princess St, east towards the military base, or west towards ???

Hopefully they will be able to track down the woman he was talking with and followed out of the bar. I imagine that there has to be some outside surveillance somewhere if the bar does not have any.

IMO

 

[LadyL]

Well, the river is 8 blocks away with very shallow banks. It looks like parts of the base are right on the river as well. Hopefully they can find him on CCTV!

what do you mean by 'shallow' banks?

 

[mrz]

Best wishes for this young man.

 

[musicaljoke]

Is the river frozen over?

 

[mrz]

what do you mean by 'shallow' banks?

I would assume -not steep.?

 

[GuyfromCanada]

Pte. Michal Beaman, originally from Saint John, N.B., has been in Kingston since early January to train at the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics. On Friday night, he went out with course mates and took a taxi to The Spot nightclub in the Hub. That is the last place he was seen by them just before midnight. He had told them that he’d be leaving with a woman, his aunt Tracy Brewer said on Monday.

Search continues for missing CFB Kingston student

 

[cobalt sky]

Pte. Michal Beaman, originally from Saint John, N.B., has been in Kingston since early January to train at the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics. On Friday night, he went out with course mates and took a taxi to The Spot nightclub in the Hub. That is the last place he was seen by them just before midnight. He had told them that he’d be leaving with a woman, his aunt Tracy Brewer said on Monday.

Search continues for missing CFB Kingston student

A few more details from the article above:

"Brewer said surveillance footage from the club showed Beaman leave with a woman, them talking outside for a few minutes before she threw up her arms and walked back inside. He did not follow her.

Tips led the investigation to the Warming and Counselling Centre on Wellington Street, where police learned Beaman stayed for a while talking to the homeless. He did not have any money and asked how to get back to CFB Kingston....

She posted Monday evening that Beaman was captured by surveillance cameras crossing the LaSalle Causeway on Highway 2, heading toward CFB Kingston, but stopped to look at the Royal Military College’s Memorial Arch for about 10 minutes. In the footage, it appears Beaman had lost his coat, she said.

The Memorial Arch is roughly a 3.5-kilometre walk from the centre of the School for Communications and Electronics. The school is located south of Highway 2 on the most eastern area of the base. The two common routes to the school would either be taking Highway 2 straight to the entrance of the school, or turning right off Highway 2 toward Fort Henry and walking through military housing along Lundy’s Lane. Both are a similar distance....

Brewer has been posting updates on the search for her nephew on her Facebook page on behalf of herself and her sister, Beaman’s mother. She explains on the page that investigators are following Beaman’s movements early Saturday morning using surveillance footage."

I'm not sure if we are allowed to post the Aunt's FB page here.

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[GuyfromCanada]

It’s been over three days since Pte. Michal Beaman has been missing. With every day that passes, it leaves more questions for his parents, Natalie and Robert Beaman, who drove from New Brunswick to Kingston in one night once they heard he was missing.

“We drove through storms, drove through the night,” Robert said.

More at ‘We just need to find him’: Parents of missing army reservist still holding out hope

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
Military Police search for Canadian Forces member from Kingston

''Beaman’s cellphone last pinged a cellular tower a little after midnight, Gamblin said. Brewer explained that his friends had told investigators that Beaman was having trouble with the phone’s battery life. The phone has not been located.

He said investigators would like to connect with the woman to whom Beaman was speaking outside The Spot. In the meantime, they are working on retracing Beaman’s steps. That investigation brought them to the warming centre on Wellington Street.

“(Investigators) are really trying to focus on reconstructing the timeline and sequence of events, the path that Pte. Beaman might have taken as he left the Hub so that they can steer our search efforts,” Gamblin said.

Gamblin said that the tip Beaman stopped in at the centre has yet to be substantiated, but Brewer has also been told that her nephew stopped in at the centre. Gamblin noted the centre would have been in his natural path back to base.

While it has not been confirmed, investigators have been told that a person matching Beaman’s description went into the centre, warmed up, had an empty wallet that he had dropped, and it was given back to him before he left, Gamblin said.

“(Investigators) are still working towards getting more of the close-circuit camera footage along the route that they think he might have taken,” Gamblin said. “They’re hoping to get enough fidelity on the images to identify who he was with at any point during the evening to start identifying them, and potentially asking them some questions.”

 

[cobalt sky]

Well the good thing is, we know he made it across the bridge and stopped at the Memorial Arch. Kind of strange that it appeared that he had lost his coat at some point, not sure why he would have taken his coat off ?? From the Arch there are a few different routes he could have taken to get back to the military housing, and he could have also wandered through the large open areas just east of the Arch. The 11 Satellite Ave address is the address of the school he was attending, but I believe he would have been heading to the housing area which appears to be the area just north of the school, right off of Hwy 2. Unless he decided to go somewhere else instead of back to the housing area...hopefully another update will be posted soon as to where he went after stopping at the Arch. I'm hoping he headed east instead of back towards the water.

 

[dotr]

January 28, 2020 6:48 PM EST rbbm.
Parents of missing private determined to find son
''The parents of a missing Canadian Forces private are searching alongside their son’s comrades and are determined to find him safe.

“We just want to express how thankful we are to the military for everything that they are doing. They’re working really hard,” Natalie Beaman, Pte. Michal Beaman’s mother, said while taking a quick break from searching. “It’s just been phenomenal the support that they’ve given us. Just amazing.”

''The Memorial Arch is roughly a 3.5-kilometre walk from the centre of the School for Communications and Electronics. The school is located south of Highway 2 on the most eastern area of the base. The two common routes to the school would either be taking Highway 2 straight to the entrance of the school, or turning right off Highway 2 toward Fort Henry and walking through military housing along Lundy’s Lane. Both are a similar distance.

“We’ll be searching where we feel it can be the most effective,” Lemaire said.

She said that while they search for Beaman, they will be limiting updates to the public regarding the CFNIS investigation.''
''She said that while they search for Beaman, they will be limiting updates to the public regarding the CFNIS investigation.

Anyone with information about Beaman’s whereabouts is asked to call the Military Police at 613-541-5010, ext. 2044.''

OPP divers prepare to enter the water near the LaSalle Causeway during the search for missing Pte. Michal Beaman in Kingston on Tuesday. (Elliot Ferguson/The Whig-Standard) Elliot Ferguson / Elliot Ferguson/Whig-Standard

 

[NervousNellie]

Maybe he gave his coat to a homeless person.

 

[Vern]

Pte Michal Beaman has been recovered deceased in the same area of water seen above in post 15.

The body of Pte. Michal Beaman was pulled from the water at the mouth of the Cataraqui River Wednesday afternoon, metres south of the LaSalle Causeway on the grounds of the Royal Military College.

A large group of military members, OPP officers and Kingston police gathered around a blue tarp at the side of the water on Wednesday afternoon.

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Body of reservist missing in Kingston, Ont., found near LaSalle Causeway

The road that you see in the article photo is also used as a running route by members of RMC and all the other base units. It circles around RMC, up Fort Henry Hill and into the military housing area. The base gym is almost directly across the street from this road and the RMC Memorial Arch where he was last seen on cameras and if you check the google maps from above, you can see the walk-way bridge over the highway that we all use to cross over the main drag to start our runs on the other side.

My condolences are with the family, the friends, fellow lineman and the course-mates of Pte Michal Beaman. We will remember him.

 

[cobalt sky]

Oh no!!! I was just thinking about him! So very sad to hear he has not been found alive. I see that there is an ongoing investigation. I'm thinking he must have had too much to drink and ended up in the water; I'm hoping that there wasn't foul play. Thinking of his family and friends with a heavy heart.

 

[Sillybilly]

Rest in Peace, Private Michal Beaman

Coincidentally, it seems a theatre company is currently in the area doing a production on Joe Grozelle, another RMC student who was also found in the same area (Lasalle Causeway / Cataraqui River) in 2003.

Without derailing the thread, it might be interesting to keep in mind our recollections of the Joe Grozelle case while discussing Private Beaman.

The Joe Grozelle thread can be found here.

 

[dotr]

Jan 31 2020
Autopsy ordered following death of young New Brunswick military reservist in Kingston | The Star
''KINGSTON, ONT.—An autopsy has been ordered following the death of a 22-year-old military reservist from New Brunswick whose remains were found in Ontario.

The body of Pte. Michal Berman of Saint John was recovered from the Cataraqui River in Kingston, Ont., on Wednesday by divers with the Ontario Provincial Police.''

''Mercier says by Monday an active search was underway.

He says the investigation is ongoing''.