Body Found In Apartment Last Week Identified

MINNEAPOLIS – Officials have identified the man apparently beaten to death last week in a apartment near downtown Minneapolis.

City police said a man was found dead last Tuesday following a party at an apartment in the Dundry House building on the corner of South 5th Avenue and East 19th Street.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office identified the victim as 50-year-old Gregory Maurice Washington.

His manner and cause of death have yet to be released.