Overview
- Deputies said a boater found the body along the 12900 block of Indian River Drive around 9 a.m. Sunday, later identifying the victim as 18-year-old Elias Ramos.
- Early findings indicate a possible link to an earlier incident in southern Brevard County where a suspect fled Sebastian police and entered the Indian River Lagoon.
- Multiple agencies, including FWC and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, searched for the fleeing individual but did not locate him.
- Authorities believe currents carried the body south through the lagoon; cause and manner of death remain undetermined pending a medical examiner’s autopsy.
- In a separate case, a Monday 8:30 a.m. shooting at 12th Street and Commerce Avenue in Vero Beach involved three IRCSO deputies, a Martin County deputy, and a U.S. Marshal, with a male suspect hospitalized in critical condition as the CID and FBI investigate.