Port Orange, FL – A dead woman is found floating in the Intercoastal Waterway near Port Orange.
Volusia County dispatchers say the woman’s body was found around 7am Wednesday close to ICW marker 56 near Shamrock Drive, just north of the Dunlawton Avenue Bridge.
The body remained in the water until investigators with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission removed it from the water and turned it over to the Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Port Orange Police Department Lieutenant Scott Brozio says officers responded to the Seven Seas Marina on South Peninsula Drive soon after the call for help came in and that’s when the body was found floating in a canal attached to the Halifax River.
“An autopsy has been tentatively scheduled for [Thursday morning] to determine [the] cause of death,” Brozio added. “The identity of the body is being withheld pending identification and notification of next of kin.”
POPD and South Daytona police are investigating a possible connection between this body and a report of a missing woman the night before in South Daytona. Authorities combed part of the Halifax near South Daytona overnight before calling off the search.
Media requests for 911 in both cases were denied because the investigation is still active.
Anyone with information is asked to call POPD Detective Michael Wallace at 386-506-5885.
Map of approximate location (courtesy Google)
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