Police identify man found in Mississippi River
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Minneapolis police have identified a man who was found dead in the Mississippi River.
Boaters found the body of Marwa Akway Omot, 23, of Minneapolis, in the river Sunday afternoon.
Police believe the man was in the water about two days before he was discovered two hundred yards south of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge. The cause of death has not been released.
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