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Baton Rouge Drowning Victim Identifed

Posted: Aug 4, 2010 8:27 AM by Sharlee Barriere

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's
Office has identified a man whose body washed ashore near a casino
as 30-year-old Brandon Hunt of Zachary.
City police spokesman L'Jean McKneely tells The Advocate that
investigators don't suspect foul play.
He says Hunt was using drugs and hallucinating when he went into
the water.
McKneely says a fisherman found Hunt's body about 2 p.m.
Saturday near an abandoned dock south of the Belle of Baton Rouge
casino.

Topics: baton, rouge, drowning, victim, identified

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