State medical examiner identifies man who died near Ketchikan

Published 12:06 am Wednesday, July 27, 2016

KETCHIKAN — A man found dead in waters off Ketchikan has been identified as a 63-year-old resident.

Alaska State Troopers said in an online dispatch the state medical examiner identified the man as Harris Hunter Wood II.

An autopsy determined that Wood drowned.

Troopers shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday responded to a call of a body floating in Tongass Narrows off the North Tongass Highway.

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