UPDATE: Body Found in St. Pete Canal is 17-Year-Old

Updated, 3:07 p.m.:

Detectives have identified a body found in a St. Petersburg canal as that of a 17-year-old Dunedin boy.

Manuel Vivanco's body may have been in the water for about two days by the time a passerby found it Monday night in a canal on the south side of the Jacaranda Retirement Home, 4250 56th St. N., the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said.

Deputies say Vivanco's death is not suspicious in nature.

The Medical Examiner's Office took possession of the body and conducted an autopsy, detectives said. Toxicology reports are still pending.

Earlier:

Detectives are seeking the public's help in identifying a man whose body was found in a canal outside a retirement home in unincorporated St. Petersburg.

The body may have been in the water for about two days by the time a passerby found it in a canal on the south side of the Jacaranda Retirement Home, 4250 56th St. N., the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said Monday night.

Detectives said they do not believe the death was suspicious in nature.

The body is described as an Hispanic or bi-racial man in his early to mid-20s, about 5-foot-7 and 150 pounds, the sheriff's office said in a media release. He had short hair and was clothed in a soccer-style uniform, including a V-neck tan shirt with yellow or gold stripes on the shoulders and matching shorts. The shirt has the letters "BWIN" on the front and the words "REAL MADRID" on the back collar. He was wearing socks and no shoes.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Sgt. Rob Snipes of the sheriff's Robbery/Homicide Unit at 727-582-6200.

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