PORT BOLIVAR — The Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office identified a Port Bolivar man who is presumed to be a victim of Hurricane Ike after fishermen found his body on the north jetty.
John Florence, a spokesman for the medical examiner, said an autopsy revealed the man, 70, drowned, but Florence withheld the man’s name until the family, including a relative living in Galveston, could be notified.
Two fishermen, who were taking a break from storm cleanup in Crystal Beach, discovered the body Saturday afternoon on the jetty rocks about a mile from shore.
Florence said the medical examiner identified the man using fingerprints on file from his work.
Florence said the man’s home on Port Bolivar was gone, presumably swept away by the storm surge that inundated the peninsula when Ike made landfall Sept. 13, causing severe flooding and damaging much of the upper Texas coast.
The man is the 16th person to be found dead in Galveston County as a result of the storm, according to reports from the medical examiner.
