A man reported missing while hiking in the Kofa Refuge area near Yuma was found dead by searchers Monday.

Twenty-eight year old Nathan Marcus Hughes from Mississippi had been reported missing Monday morning at about 2:23 a.m. by a woman who said that Hughes had called her on Friday , July 27, 2018 and gave her his GPS location and mentioned that he was going hiking and camping in the Kofa Refuge area just north of Yuma. Hughes apparently told the woman that if he did not make contact by Sunday night to notify law enforcement. The Yuma County Sheriff's Office , the U.S. Border Patrol Search Trauma and Rescue Team began a ground search and the MCAS Yuma Search and Rescue unit assisted with an aerial search. Hughes vehicle was located about 6 miles east of Highway 95 and at about 9:55 a.m. searchers found his body about a mile from the vehicle.