A body pulled out of Lake Ontario last Friday has been identified as Max Maisel, the missing son of ESPN writer Ivan Maisel. Max, 21, was last seen getting out of his SUV at Charlotte Pier in Rochester, New York.

According to the Post-Standard, a fisherman came across Maisel’s body Friday evening about 200 yards away from a Coast Guard station. The Rochester Institute of Technology junior had been missing since February, when his SUV was found abandoned at Charlotte Pier.

“There was a guy who saw him get out of his car,” Ivan Maisel, who writes about college football for ESPN, told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in February. “The guy left and came back and the car was still there, and that unnerved him and he called the police.”

From the family’s statement:

We knew this day would come, and we are relieved that it has. But it is merely the postscript to our sad story. We have mourned Max from the night that the Rochester police called to tell us he was missing. There was no other plausible solution to the puzzle he left behind.

Now we must get on with living with this hole in our lives.

Death cannot take away the love we continue to have for our son and the love that our daughters have for their brother. Death will not rob us of that.

Police have not released a cause of death.