Body pulled from Schuylkill River was 21-year-old who had been missing for weeks, father says

Ausar Scott-Thomas, 21, was reported missing March 7 after he went out with friends and never returned home. His friend, Quadir Diaz, is still missing.The body of a man recovered in the Schuylkill River over the weekend is that of Ausar Scott-Thomas, a 21-year-old who had been missing for three weeks, according to his father.

Scott-Thomas had been missing since the evening of March 7, after he and two friends drove to Northwest Philadelphia for reasons that Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore said remain under investigation. One of the friends returned home that night, family and police have said, but Scott-Thomas and his close friend, 18-year-old Quadir Diaz, did not.

Vanore said the body had no signs of trauma, and that the Medical Examiner’s Office was working to determine a cause of death. Thomas said the friend explained to him that the men were driving in Northwest Philadelphia when someone started chasing them in another car, and they tried to flee. He said the friend told him the three crashed the car, with Diaz and Scott-Thomas running one way, and the friend running another.

”He’s not going to leave Ausar, and Ausar is not going to leave him,” she said. “If Ausar jumped in the water, Quadir jumped right with him.”Scott-Thomas and Diaz had been friends for years, Thomas said, having lived next door to one another in the East Oak Lane section of the city.

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