Missing person found dead at Grand Canyon, third fatality at national park in a week
Rangers at Grand Canyon found the body of a missing person earlier this week, marking the third death at the national park since July 31, officials said Thursday.
Rangers at Grand Canyon found the body of a missing person earlier this week, marking the third death at the national park since July 31, officials said Thursday.
The body of Leticia Castillo, 20, of Albuquerque, was discovered Tuesday 150 feet below an overlook on the canyon’s South Rim, the National Park Service said in a news release.
Castillo was believed to have entered the park on Aug. 3, the agency said. The park service and local medical examiner's office are investigating the death and additional details weren’t immediately available, according to the release.
On Aug. 2, the body of a BASE jumper — an extreme sport that involves leaping from fixed objects like bridges, cliffs and buildings with a parachute — was found 500 feet below Yavapai Point, also on the park’s south rim.
BASE jumping is banned in the Grand Canyon, the park service said. And it has generally been prohibited across the national park system, an agency official said in a memo earlier this year.
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