John Castic Goldman Sachs analyst found dead in creek days after going missing after attending the Brooklyn Mirage known to have ongoing issues with drug use and accidental drug overdoses.
A Goldman Sachs senior analyst has been found dead, his body submerged in a creek, close to half a mile away from a concert venue he had gone to over the weekend in Brooklyn.
John Castic, 27, vanished after leaving the venue around 3 a.m. Saturday morning, following a performance by electronic music group Zeds Dead at the The Brooklyn Mirage in Williamsburg.
Alarm was set off when the banker failed to return to his Manhattan apartment, with concerned friends saying Castic failed to pick up his phone after telling them he was going to catch an Uber ride home to his apartment in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, only to never make it back.
Goldman Sachs Analyst John Castic Found Dead in NYC Waters
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Uncanny disappearance
The macabre discovery comes just weeks after another man was found dead near the same Brooklyn club.
Castic reportedly told his friends at the club that he was going to catch an Uber ride home to his apartment in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, but he never made it back.
Reports told of the missing banker’s body being discovered just on Tuesday 1pm by dive crews at Newtown creek. A cause of death has not been revealed.
Castic’s best friend, Sara Kostecka shared news about Castic’s disappearance in a Monday Facebook post, where she revealed the pair are supposed to be together at her brother’s upcoming wedding.
‘Any information would be greatly appreciated, as well as sharing this to anyone in NYC that might have seen him,’ Kostecka stated.
‘I’ve heard rumors from people about being asked to hop in a taxi/ cab from some creepy people near the Mirage – reminder to stay safe and check in on your friends,” she additionally wrote. I’m supposed to walk with him in my brother’s wedding next week. We just wanna find John.’
Fears for the worse
Kostecka told Fox News Digital that she feared the worst. She said that Castic and her have known each other for seven years and he has never been unreachable.
Castic, who lives in Lower Manhattan, is described as 6-foot-3 and 180 pounds according to cops.
The Illinois native graduated from DePaul University and began his job at Goldman Sachs last August, according to his Facebook page.
His last known location was near 1133 Grand Street — about a half mile away from the concert hall, sources said.
He was last seen wearing a white and navy blue floral shirt with khaki pants, according to a missing person flier.
History of drug benders
Another friend told Fox News that Castic’s phone died after he left the venue and hasn’t been turned on since.
‘We’re absolutely very worried about him,’ Jonah Shales told FOX. ‘No one has had any contact with him.’
Castic is the second person to go missing in recent weeks after going to The Brooklyn Mirage, one of three concert spaces housed at the Avant Gardner that has a total capacity of 6,000 people.
The other man, Karl Clemente, 27, was turned away from the venue because ‘he allegedly drank alcohol’ on June 11 when he went with a group of friends to see a concert, electronic music publication EDM Identity reported, citing a friend’s Facebook post.
Clemente’s body was found days later about half a mile away in Newtown Creek behind a warehouse, according to sources.
Clemente’s death was not considered suspicious, sources said.
In March, Gothamist reported about The Mirage’s battle with the State Liquor Authority.
SLA officials lodged numerous concerns about ‘rampant’ drug use and noted a number of people who died that attended the events there, Gothamist reported.
Since 2017, three people who attended different Avant Gardner events ended up dying of accidental drug overdoses, Gothamist reported.
A 41-year-old man died in 2017, a 21-year-old woman in 2018 and a 23-year-old woman in 2021, the outlet reported after obtaining police records.
The first two deaths were tied to ecstasy or molly consumption and the 23-year-old died from effects of MDA, or known as ‘sally’ and methamphetamine.
The owner of Avant Gardner, Juergen ‘Billy’ Bildstein, maintains his business has been unfairly targeted by SLA, Gothamist reported.
