EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — An Everett city councilman has been identified as the victim in a weekend rafting accident on the Green River.
The King County medical examiner’s office confirmed friends’ accounts that Councilman Drew Nielsen died Saturday.
A friend who witnessed the accident, Irv Wiswall of McMinnville, Ore., told The Daily Herald that Nielsen was pinned by his raft when it caught against a rock and went sidewise. His wife was briefly trapped under the raft and made her way out.
The current was so strong it pulled off Nielsen’s life vest. Rescue crews recovered his body.
