Marine patrol searches waterways for Bryce Tarter

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Bryce Tarter

By Michelle Paynter - bio | email

SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - It was a clear and cold morning at Bell's Landing as SCMPD marine patrol officers scanned Hoover Creek.

Savannah-Chatham police and GBI agents have been working with Armstrong Atlantic State police in the search for Bryce Tarter.

The AASU student was last seen 11 days ago in the university's parking lot in his white pick up truck. Tarter had just returned from a party in Statesboro.

They were using a yellow torpedo looking device called a side scan sonar. It produces images of the bottom of the creek.

"It's just going to give us an idea of what's on the bottom, if there's anything down there that could possibly be a vehicle or anything like that," Corporal Chris Boyette said.

GBI special agent in charge Micah Ward, said searching this area was a logical place to start. Bell's Landing is located just behind AASU.

"We are just trying to cover all possibilities," said Ward. "With this area of water being so close to Armstrong, we want to check the water just in case Bryce ran off into this river when he left the campus."

Agents have already searched the area along dozens of roads and highway. Marine patrol not only searched this area but also the Forest River.

"Just checking the area, covering bases, make sure we have all the ground covered," Boyette said.

Many of the officers and agents involved in the search have children of their own. They say they want to be able to tell Bryce's family, they did everything to try to find him.

"I can't image how terrible this is for them," said Ward.

Tarter was driving a white Nissan Frontier pickup truck with tinted windows and Braves and Falcons stickers on the back windows.

The tag is from Maine, 944 -7QD.

If you have information, you are asked to call the CUE Center for Missing Persons at 910.232.1687, visit their website at www.ncmissingpersons.org or contact your local authorities.

For more information, visit www.bringbrycehome.com.