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Coast Guard suspends search for missing kayaker

Posted at 12:00 PM, Aug 20, 2017
and last updated 2017-08-21 04:10:28-04

FISH CREEK - The Coast Guard along with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and several other agencies are searching for a kayaker who went missing in Green Bay on Saturday. The Coast Guard believes he went missing near Horseshoe Island off of Peninsula State Park.

Family members of the missing 20-year-old man tell the Door County Sheriff's Department he was supposed to return by 4:00 PM on Saturday. They say he was kayaking from Nicolet Bay to Horseshoe Island.

The Door County Sheriff's Department notified the Coast Guard shortly after 10:00 PM after a crew from the WDNR found a kayak on Horseshoe Island. The man's cellphone and jacket were also found in a vehicle nearby.

NBC26 will update this story as we receive more information.