Police: Body in Barrel in Lake Mead Was Man Who Had Been Shot

Police: Body in Barrel in Lake Mead Was Man Who Had Been Shot
The top of Lake Mead drinking water Intake No. 1 above the surface level of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam on April 25, 2022. Southern Nevada Water Authority via AP
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LAS VEGAS—The body found inside a barrel on the newly exposed bottom of Lake Mead after the lake’s level was depleted amid drought is that of a man who was shot, police said Tuesday.

The killing probably happened between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s because the victim was wearing shoes that were manufactured during that period, said homicide Lt. Ray Spencer, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.