WOOD COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A body has been found floating down the Ohio River.
According to the Wood County Sheriff’s Office, on Saturday, December 23, 2023 at 5:34 p.m. Wood County dispatchers received notification from a 911 call of a body floating in the Ohio River in the area of the Interstate 77 bridge near the State of Ohio shore in Wood County.
Two subjects walking near the riverbank in Marietta had discovered the body in the water.
Dispatch notified the Marietta Police Department and Fire Department for assistance as deputies with the Wood County Sheriff’s Office along with other emergency personnel responded to the banks of the Ohio River in Marietta.
A rescue boat from the Williamstown Volunteer Fire Company responded and recovered the body. The body was transported to the Williamstown boat ramp and transported by St. Joseph Ambulance Service to Camden Clark Medical Center in Parkersburg.
Assistant Wood County Coroner P.R. Louden responded to the hospital along with Sgt. Waters, the decedent was identified to be Christopher Wayne Shilling, 45, of Washington County, Ohio.
The cause of death is still under investigation by investigators and the WV State Medical Examiner’s Office.
The incident remains under investigation by the Wood County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and Marietta Police Department.
