Body found in Mississippi River ID’d as woman reported missing from Minneapolis
A woman whose body was found in the Mississippi River after it was spotted in St. Paul has been identified as a 26-year-old who had been reported missing, police said Monday.
Foul play is not suspected in the death of Nina Nelson of Brooklyn Park, according to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office. The office is working to determine her cause and manner of death.
Nelson was last seen June 9 in Minneapolis, according to information posted on Minnesota United, which shares info about missing people.
On June 28, after a woman’s body was spotted in the flood-swollen, fast-moving Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul, authorities recovered her about seven miles away near the Wakota Bridge between South St. Paul and Newport, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office water patrol said at the time. She was identified as Nelson.
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