MEMPHIS, Tenn — The Tunica County Sheriff’s Office says a body found floating in the Mississippi River in August has been identified as a Memphis man.
Investigators said just after 4 p.m. Aug. 21, 2023, a member of the United States Coast Guard who was working with a crew on the river called 911 after finding the body in the water on the Tunica County side of the river near the 687-mile marker.
The body was taken to the Mississippi Crime Lab in Jackson for an autopsy. The sheriff's office said he has since been identified as 50-year-old Mario Stewart of Memphis. They have not said how he died.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Tunica County Sheriff’s Office at 662-363-1411.
