Missing Morgan Stanley trader found dead in Lake Ontario near Toronto’s Beaches
Doug Alexandar, Bloomberg News
Murray Abbott, a Morgan Stanley adviser, was last heard from on April 25 in eastern Toronto. Toronto Police Service via Bloomberg
Toronto police identified a body found in the water near the city’s Beaches neighborhood as that of missing Morgan Stanley sales trader Murray Abbott.
Police are awaiting an autopsy before determining the cause of death of Abbott, who went missing two weeks ago, Detective Constable Neil Thornton said in a telephone interview Monday. His body was found around 6:40 a.m. floating face down just east of a water filtration plant, close to Queen Street East and Courcelette Road, according to earlier police reports.
Toronto Police marine unit officers remove the body found near the R.C. Harris Water Filtration Plant near Fallingbrook Road and Queen Street in Toronto on Monday. Laura Pedersen/National Post
Police had been searching the affluent neighbourhood along the shore of Lake Ontario for Abbott, who was last seen April 25. Abbott was a vice president in the capital markets group of Morgan Stanley’s Canadian wealth management division.
Abbott, 36, joined the New York-based bank in 2010 and earlier worked at Blackmont Capital Inc., a Toronto-based brokerage.
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