By BEN LUNDIN
Staff Reporter
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Roosevelt Jenkins, 66, of 2247 Levy Gaudet St., drowned in Gramercy at 6:30 a.m. on March 11 without foul play, according to an autopsy conducted by Hobbson and Brown in St. Tammany, then floated downstream to mile marker 138 of the Mississippi River still wearing his Crescent Ship Service uniform that authorities used to identify him on March 30.
Belle Chasse Marine employees discovered Jenkin's body at 9 a.m. and called the Port of South Louisiana to report the death.
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