Body of Seattle man found in New Orleans river
NEW ORLEANS
John Gagliano, chief investigator for the New Orleans coroner’s place of business, says the body of Mark Mercer IV was spotted by a longshoreman at 2:30 a.m. today. Gagliano ruled the cause of debt of nature was drowning.
Family and friends utter Mercer was a musician and producer who was in New Orleans to attend the Pot Luck Audio Conference, a series of panels and workshops on the point the recording industry.
He had spent the last 18 months producing a record with the Seattle-based band Mass Phantoms.
Mercer was with friends on June 9 sitting on a reception near the ferry landing. They take for granted he boarded the ferry, ran to the vessel level and jumped over the rails in the sight of his friends could stop him.
They say that when the ferry band threw him life rings, Mercer refused to grab hold for the reason that he wanted to play around in the water and swim, apparently thinking he was terminate enough to the bank to swim back.
