ALAMEDA — A man reported missing to authorities earlier this week was found dead in the waters near Marina Village Yacht Harbor on Wednesday, authorities said.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office coroner’s bureau identified him as Angel Ambriz, 56, of Alameda.
Coroners from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office wheel away the body of Angel Ambriz, 56, after he was found in the water at Marina Village in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Ambriz, a native of Michoacan, Mexico, has lived on his boat at the marina for many years and has been missing since March 18, according to his family. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Alameda police had asked for the public’s help in finding Ambriz since a missing-person report filed March 23, and investigators had recovered surveillance-camera video footage of Ambriz walking at the city’s Marina Village Yacht Harbor shortly before 2 a.m. March 18.
In a social-media post Wednesday, police acknowledged Ambriz’s body had been found late Wednesday morning in harbor waters.
“This passing is devastating for our community,” police said in part. “Please keep his grieving loved ones in your thoughts during this difficult time.”
Friends and family members of Ambriz watched sadly Wednesday morning at the harbor as Alameda Fire Department firefighters assisted with the body’s recovery.
An Ambriz family member who spoke to this news organization said Angel Ambriz was a longtime resident of the harbor and owned a boat there. Ambriz, the eighth child of a family of twelve with roots in Mexico’s Michoacan state, had a passion for providing maintenance to other boats and his own.
Anyone with additional information may call Alameda police at 510-337-8340.
Staff photographer Ray Chavez contributed to this report. Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.
Family members mourn after the body of Angel Ambriz, 56, was discovered in the waters at Marina Village in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Ambriz, a native of Michoacan, Mexico, has lived on his boat at the marina for many years and has been missing since March 18, according to his family. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Fernando Ambriz, third from left, and family members mourn as the body of his brother Angel Ambriz, 56, is taken away by coroners from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office at Marina Village in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Angel Ambriz, a native of Michoacan, Mexico, has lived on his boat at the marina for many years and has been missing since March 18, according to his family. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Coroners from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office prepare to wheel away the body of Angel Ambriz, 56, after he was found in the water at Marina Village in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Ambriz, a native of Michoacan, Mexico, has lived on his boat at the marina for many years and has been missing since March 18, according to his family. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Coroners from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office prepare to wheel away the body of Angel Ambriz, 56, after he was found in the water at Marina Village in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Ambriz, a native of Michoacan, Mexico, has lived on his boat at the marina for many years and has been missing since March 18, according to his family. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Family members mourn after the body of Angel Ambriz, 56, was discovered in the waters at Marina Village in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Ambriz, a native of Michoacan, Mexico, has lived on his boat at the marina for many years and has been missing since March 18, according to his family. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
