The harbor was't the type of place Maddula would normally visit because he's more of an indoors person, his family said.



About 6:30 p.m. Thursday, a Wilmette resident who did not want to be identified told the Tribune he saw people aboard two small boats pull something out of the water in Wilmette Harbor and place it on a stretcher.



Then about 8:10 p.m., a group of people wearing life vests carried the stretcher around the side of a U.S. Coast Guard building at the harbor and place it into a Wilmette Fire Department ambulance, which left the scene.