DEATH INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY IN FREDERICK CO.

(POINT OF ROCKS, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the river along the southern border of Frederick County late this afternoon.

A positive identification of the man has not been made. State Police have a tentative identification of an adult male who is believed to have been living in Frederick County.

At about 5:00 p.m. today, Maryland State Police were called to the area of the boat ramp in the Potomac River at Point of Rocks for the report of a body in the water. Maryland state troopers from the Frederick Barrack responded, as did Natural Resources Police officers.

The body was found in the water and the man was pronounced deceased at the scene. Troopers summoned Maryland State Police crime scene technicians and investigators from the State Police Homicide Unit. The body was recovered from the river and has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.

A car belonging to the tentatively identified man was found parked near the scene. The keys and some personal belongs were found in the car.

State Police investigators will continue this investigation throughout the night. No further details will be available until sometime tomorrow. 

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MD. State Police