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Jacksonville police: Man missing after falling in St. Johns River near downtown Jacksonville

Porscha Jackson told Action News Jax the man missing in the water is her boyfriend Padmore Atkorah (right).

Crews searched Sunday for a man who fell into the St. Johns River near the North Florida Shipyard.

Police said the man who fell in the water is an employee of the North Florida Shipyard. A fellow employee saw the man fall into the water from the bulkhead of the shipyard around 1 p.m.

The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office marine and air units and the JSO dive team and homicide unit searched the water near Bay Street and Bryan Street.

The search continued into the evening. As of late Sunday night, the man still had not been located and the search had been called off for the night.

Porscha Jackson told Action News Jax the man missing in the water is her boyfriend Padmore Atkorah.

She said she wants the search for Atkorah to continue.

"It hurts. If it was their family, they would. They would want to exhaust the time. They would want to be out here searching all day until they can't search anymore," Jackson said.

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