PANAMA CITY -- A Panama City Police Department incident report on the discovery of a man found dead Tuesday in an isolated area near St. Andrews Bay says the man had a gunshot wound to the head.
His death is being investigated as a suicide, police said Tuesday.
The body was discovered near the waterline around 2 p.m. Tuesday at the vacant research campus of Florida A & M University at the northern end of Frankford Avenue. An employee collecting material from the campus found the body unresponsive and called police after noticing a gunshot wound to his head.
Police found a 12-gauge shotgun under his body after the Medical Examiner’s Office removed it. The case is still under investigation pending a report from the Medical Examiner’s Office.