TV STAR MICHAEL SHOWERS FOUND DEAD IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Michael Showers, an actor who appeared as a police officer on “Treme,” was found dead in the Mississippi River near New Orleans yesterday.
He was 45.
A steamboat captain spotted Showers floating in the water between the St. Louis and Toulouse street wharfs, according to the Times-Picayune.
An autopsy has yet to be conducted, but an official in the Orleans Parish coroner’s office estimated that the actor’s body had been in the river for two days.
