Authorities in Fayette County used fingerprints and rapid DNA testing to confirm the identity of a man whose body was found earlier March 15 in the Youghiogheny River near Dawson.

Fayette County Coroner Dr. Bob Baker on Thursday announced the man’s identity as William Guidi, 42, of Somerset. Baker had sought help from the public to identify him, providing details about the clothing he was wearing and a picture of a tattoo of a mountain range on his back.

A preliminary autopsy indicated Guidi’s death was the result of accidental drowning, Baker said, but toxicology tests are pending.

Dawson is downriver from Connellsville and Ohiopyle and upriver from Smithton.

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