“I’m wade fishing and I’m pretty sure that there’s a body out here laying face down,” the 911 caller said. “...The river is really shallow right now. I thought it was a log or something but it’s not.”
The Dayton Fire Department arrived and removed the body from the middle of the river.
Dayton police and Five Rivers MetroParks rangers were called to the scene to investigate.
The body is male and there are no obvious signs of trauma or foul play, said Five Rivers MetroParks Chief of Public Safety Mark Hess.
“At this time we have no information as to who the man is or when or how he ended up in the river,” he added.
The man may have been in the water for a couple of days.
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office is working to identify the man and determine his cause of death.
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