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Max Maisel, the 21-year-old son of ESPN reporter and Mobile native Ivan Maisel, has been missing in upstate New York since Feb. 22. (Rochester Institute of Technology photo)
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Max Maisel, the 21-year-old son of ESPN college football writer and Mobile native Ivan Maisel, remains missing and is presumed drowned, according to a statement issued by the family Tuesday.
Maisel has been missing since he was last spotted outside his Rochester, N.Y., apartment Feb. 22. His car was found the following day at Charlotte Pier, a favorite family vacation spot on Lake Ontario, leading police the search the waters near the pier in often brutal weather for more than three weeks with no success.
On Tuesday, the Rochester Police Department announced it was calling off the water search but would continue to investigate, according to multiple reports. The Maisel family will hold a memorial service in their hometown of Bridgeport, Conn., next week.
Ivan Maisel has not written for ESPN.com or hosted his weekly college football podcast since his son's disappearance. He released the following statement Tuesday morning through the Football Writers Association of America:
On behalf of Meg and our daughters, I want to thank everyone in the FWAA community who has reached out to us over the last three weeks since our son Max went missing. We presume he drowned on Feb. 22. The care and concern of so many writers and SIDs across the country has helped us cope with the unfathomable. We are having a memorial service and a celebration of Max's life on Friday, March 27 at Congregation Bnai Israel in Bridgeport, CT.
Max Maisel was a third-year art student at Rochester Institute of Technology.