UPDATE: Michael’s death was ruled as an accident.
UPDATE: 1/3/13 – Michael’s body has been found. According to D.C. police his body was found 50 feet down a ventilation shaft in the 1800 block of Biltmore St., NW a block from Columbia Rd. He was wedged between an apartment building and row houses near Adams Morgan. An investigation into how Poe fell, is pending. A resident of the 1800 block of Biltmore St. recognized Poe from a missing flier as a man she had seen walking along rooftops early Tuesday morning. That led the woman and police to the body near the bottom of a wide duct that runs between a strip of four-story townhouses with common roofs and an apartment building at the end of the block.
Previous story: Michael Poe, 23, from Clarksburg, Maryland has been missing since New Year’s Eve. Poe was last seen at the Shenanigan’s Irish Pub in the Adams Morgan section of D.C. where he was celebrating with his friends. They all took the Metro from College Park to D.C. and then split up just before 12:30 a.m. Poe never returned home, said the Montgomery County Police, according to the Gazette.Net.
Poe is 5’11” and weighing 175 pounds, with red hair and hazel eyes. If you have any information about his whereabouts, please call police at 301-279-8000.
