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Homicide victim identified

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McElroy is confident the case will be solved.


Tampa police detectives say they've identified the decomposed body that washed ashore behind a warehouse on Gandy Boulevard on Tuesday.

Investigators say 35-year-old Gilberto Araujo was from Brazil and was not a U.S. resident. He was living in an apartment on North MacDill Avenue. They say the case appears to be a homicide, although the cause of death hasn't been confirmed.

"It is a difficult case because it appears that the body did wash ashore and that it has been in the water for several days," said Tampa Police Department Public Information Officer Laura McElroy. "But these are very experienced homicide detectives and they're on the case and they're working and piecing together what happened, so hopefully we'll be able to solve this."

Police say they're working many leads.


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