BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — The FBI is offering up to a $10,000 reward for information on the final hours of an Illinois State University graduate student who disappeared in August and was later found dead in a river. Twenty-five-year-old Jelani Day was reported missing on Aug. 25. His body was found in the Illinois River about 60 miles north of the ISU campus on Sept. 4 near the Peru area. Authorities determined he died by drowning. Day’s mother has hired a civil rights attorney to investigate his death. The FBI say it’s offering the reward of up to $10,000 for “substantial information regarding Day’s final hours leading to the identification of new witnesses or evidence.”
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