DC Police: Woman Pulled from Potomac Was Alexandrian

Police have identified the woman pulled from the Potomac River Saturday as an Alexandrian, according to a news release from DC Police.

Police ID’d the woman as Maria Lydia Cruz, 61, of Alexandria, according to the release.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating the undetermined death. The body was discovered Saturday at approximately 11:30 a.m. She was unconscious and unresponsive, police said.

Cruz’s body was discovered at the edge of the water near the intersection of Four Mile Run Stream and the Potomac River, just below Reagan National Airport.

Cruz was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia, pending an autopsy and the determination of a cause and manner of death.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the police at (202) 727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by text messaging 50411.

Police say she had been wearing a ring on her left hand with “Erica” on one side and “Jones” on the other. She was wearing a dark coat, blue hoodie, red shirt, light blue pajama pants, white socks, and pink-yellow-black gym shoes, police said.

Police did not say if Cruz is from the City of Alexandria or one of the areas in Fairfax County often called Alexandria.

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