(SALISBURY, Md.)- Salisbury Police continue to investigate a mysterious death after they say an adult male's body was found floating in Wicomico River early Monday morning.
Laura McCarthy, a bookkeeper at R. C. Holloway Company, first discovered the victim who police have now identified as 43-year-old Thomas Richard Hitchens, Jr., of Salisbury, in the North prong of the river around 8 a.m. Monday.
"She was walking along the edge of the water, saw something weird in there, came in and said she thought she saw a dead body floating in the water," said Ronald Holloway, a warehouse manager at R. C. Holloway Company. "Me and my Dad came out here and checked it out, and sure enough it was a guy face down in the water, floating."
Police say Hitchens was wearing black jeans and a short-sleeve blue and black button-up shirt. Police say Hitchens was also wearing a black orthopedic medical boot on his right foot.
Police say detectives are still working to find out just how Hitchens ended up in the river, as his body showed no obvious signs of trauma that would indicate his death. Hitchens' body has been transported to a Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.
Detectives request anyone who may have seen Hitchens walking in the Wicomico River area (south of Salisbury Parkway), or the Market Street Inn area, between Saturday, June 4, 2016, around 7 p.m. and Monday, June 6, 2016, around 8 a.m. to contact the Salisbury Police Department Criminal Investigation Division at 410-548-3113 or Crime Solvers at 410-548-1776.