Editor’s Note: The above video is KXAN’s previous coverage of the incident.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Friday, the Austin Police Department identified the woman who was pulled from Lady Bird Lake following a water rescue Thursday.
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The person was identified as 49-year-old Jennifer Lynn Atkinson, according to police.
On Thursday morning, police responded to a welfare check call after a body was seen facedown in the water near the 90 block of Congress Avenue.
The incident was treated as a death investigation with no foul play suspected…