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

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas officials identified a homicide victim Thursday whose remains were found in a rusted barrel on a Lake Mead shore after the lake’s level was depleted amid drought.Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse identified the victim as Edward Lelburian Jackson, who was from Arkansas and in his mid to late 50s when he died.The discovery by boaters in 2022 sparked memories of the city’s mob era, which ended in the mid-1980s. Organized crime helped build up the city, and a body stuffed in a barrel was known to signify a mob killing.But while Jackson had a brief criminal history in the early 1980s in Salt Lake City, Utah, which included one charge of aggravated arson and conspiracy of fraud, investigators said Thursday they do not have information to support theories that the man's death was mob-related.Jackson's family told investigators that he liked to travel, but it is unclear why he was in Las Vegas.Authorities had already said the man was shot, and they estimate he was k