Las Vegas officials release the ID of a man whose body was found in a barrel in Lake Mead

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas authorities have identified a homicide victim whose remains were found in a rusted barrel on a Lake Mead shore after the lake’s level was depleted amid drought, officials announced Thursday.Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse identified the victim, who was shot once in the head, as Edward Lelburian Jackson. He was from Arkansas and was in his mid to late 50s when he died. Authorities said Jackson’s killing is unsolved and that they are investigating.Jackson was identified with the help of a bone sample sent for genealogy profiling, along with three angles of a composite face and clothing Jackson was wearing when he died, she said.“We were able to confirm that the remains were in fact Edward Jackson,” she said.The discovery of the barrel by boaters in 2022 sparked memories of the city’s mob era, which ended in the mid-1980s. Organized crime helped build up Las Vegas, and a body stuffed in a barrel was known to signify a mob killing.But while Jackson had a brief