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Body washed up at Berkeley Marina identified

March 18, 2012 12:37 pm by Tracey Taylor

The body was spotted by staff at Hs Lordships restaurant

The body of a man that washed up on the Berkeley Marina Saturday morning was identified Sunday as 31-year-old Douglas Jones from Oakland, according to a Bay Area News Group report.

Investigators are still working to determine how he died, according to the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau. Preliminary indications suggest the death is not suspicious, according to the Chronicle.

The police reported that a server at Hs Lordships restaurant on Seawall Drive spotted Jones around 7:45 a.m. on Saturday. The body was fully clothed, appeared to have been in the water a relatively short period of time, and had come to rest against some rocks.

Hs Lordships staff had gathered at the restaurant for a meeting, according to its general manager Kelli Praught, speaking to the Chronicle.

Investigators will perform an autopsy to seek further information on the cause of death.

Related:
Dead body washes up on Berkeley Marina [03.17.12]

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  • Elisabeth

    So, just curious, does this add to Berkeley’s murder count for the year? 

  • Mom

     ”Preliminary indications suggest the death is not suspicious”

  • Peldor

    “Preliminary indications suggest the death is not suspicious.”  Yep, nothing at all suspicious about a 31-year-old being found dead at the Marina.  Happens all the time.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UTAORC2LANQF2ONEFJYXBSITTA bingo

    It turns out that denotation is more important than connotation in the real world.  People drown, get lost at sea, etc.  If the police didn’t see any evidence of illegal or dishonest activity then ipso facto it’s not suspicious.  Am I missing your point?

    Suspicious (adj.) having the belief or impression that someone is involved in an illegal or dishonest activity

  • Iceland_1622

    This is everyday business in Oakland sorry to say.  A local priest here in Berkeley who I know was sitting on lake Merritt one sunny afternoon when all of these police and fire trucks arrived near them and……yes……pulled up yet another body that was just floating, quite fully dead, in the lake.  Worse or more incredible were the words of his own son sitting next to him as this surreal scene was playing out i.e. “Relax dad, It’s just Oakland”  

    How does one explain or talk about this to children?!!!  It’s what is called “deep urban ‘psychopathology’ like the body at the Berkeley waterfront that appeared in a trash can one morning after the fire trucks pulled up to put out what they believed was a trash can fire at 7 am.  So people wonder why so many of us all chuckle when the so called crime reports are released by you know who every month or so, attempting to spin things.  We were all never ever meant to live this way, ever…. and I am personally leaving back to the ice and volcanoes despite all of the difficulties economically etc.  The crime rate is extremely low there.  Many of the police do not even carry guns.
     

  • Sue Tomasello

    In the early 70′s when I moved from Danville into my very first apartment on Moss Street in Oakland, my place was broken into when I was at work.  When the police arrived to make report, the officer said something like “This is Oakland, get used to it.”  I was in my mid 20′s and this was not something I was used to, growing up in prissy Marin County and Danville.  I moved shortly thereafter as my circumstances changed etc., but I will always remember that shocking statement.

  • Iceland_1622

    Sue, for perspective, about 4 ~5 years ago now I went to pay a visit to a business client out in the Avenues in San Francisco.  The most wonderful young couple one could ever expect to meet in this life.  They had just purchased a new car and had parked it right out in front of their apartment building on a side street there and this one woman alcoholic, whom they both knew, totally destroyed it ( hit and run ).  Now get ready for this:  They knew exactly where she could be found and arrested with ease ( at the local coffee shop there on the corner ) and when the SFPD officers arrived, they started screaming at him for calling them!  How *dare* he call for help or to report this and waste their precious time was the bizarre and yet crystal clear message.  They warned him never to call them ever again about such things as it was “his personal problem”.  

    SFPD is a very corrupt police department, vertically and horizontally, however all police departments are I am sorry to say.  Codes of silence, denial, lying, destruction of evidence and worse all all still very firmly intact and active and fully in place.  Officers have quietly told me that in order ”to get along you have to go along” or face very ugly and career ending internal consequences.  On balance, the same is true with Wall Street, the Military, and every major and minor corporation here.  It’s chilling as well as deeply disturbing and damaging to any future generations on their way up or attempting such.  In full honesty America has seen it’s best days and those are now behind us.  Either we all come together ( transformation ) and work for common goals and the betterment of all as well as it’s children and vulnerable members, or it’s over with as I believe it already is as we do not have an educated populace.

  • No

    Seems like it would be difficult to prove either way. Murder by being pushed off the docks and hitting your head on a rock would look just like an accidental fall to forensics.

  • Hatemanjr

    Iceland, you don’t understand we live in a world where corruption exist? Education and how well off you are have very little to do with it. . So unless your Bernie Madoff and your screwing fellow rich people as ell as the middle class, the rich guy wil always have an an upper hand.  

    Welcome to the real word, it’s been like this since days one and it twill never change.

  • Bruce Love

    Either we all come together ( transformation ) and work for common
    goals and the betterment of all as well as it’s children
    and vulnerable members, or it’s over with as I believe it already is as
    we do not have an educated populace.

    This is a very hard sell in a  community with a large, comfortably affluent segment.   Transformation would (by today’s measures) lower (though I’d rather say alter) the affluent’s standards of living while raising those of the very poor.   Good luck with that.   People are resistant to the idea that collapse is looming and that without preparation  everyone’s standards fall (by any measure) precipitously.  There’s a lot of cultural baggage to overcome.

    Another difficulty is that even among those who will acknowledge the threat of collapse, there seems to be a sentiment that the right answer is a further haves/have-nots bifurcation.   “Fortify your castle,” is an easier sell than “make your community resilient.”   Hunker down and watch from inside the gates (and hope they don’t fall) is a popular strategy.