The body of the last person listed as missing from Hurricane Ian battering Florida last September has been identified after being found in the wreckage of a sailboat found in Matanzas Pass, the channel of water that separates Fort Myers Beach from the mainland, the New-Press of Fort Myers reports.
The family of 72-year-old James ‘Denny’ Hurst last heard from him hours before Ian reached landfall on September 28th, with Hurst telling them he was going to ride the storm out on his boat. It’s unclear where Hurst had been docked before the storm and if he intentionally set sail or was pushed away from the dock by the storm.
More than seventy people were killed in Lee County when Ian struck in September. Hurst was the last one unaccounted for and the last direct casualty of the storm.