GBI agents are investigating a death in Jackson County.
Wednesday about 11:15 a.m., the Jefferson Police Department responded to a location off of Fields Road in where several people had been searching near where a wreck occurred on Sunday, according to a GBI news release. Several officers conducted a search near the crash scene and went into the woods where they discovered the body of a man partially submerged in a river.
Once it was determined the body was outside Jefferson city limits, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office was contacted.
Although the man has not been identified, he is believed to have been an occupant of a car discovered near the river Sunday night. The car traveled a “considerable” distance from the roadway, according to the release.