PULASKI, VA (LOOTPRESS) – A woman’s body was confirmed to have been recovered from the New River over the weekend by Virginia law enforcement.
Sheriff Mike Worrell of the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday that the individual whose body was recovered on Saturday, January 21, 2023, had been the victim of a gunshot wound prior to making entry into the river.
The recovered body was revealed to be that of Jamie Leigh Frazier, a 25-year-old woman from Dublin, Virginia.
Upon recovery of the body, Frazier’s death was determined by medical examiners to have been a homicide as the result of a gunshot wound.
As such, the death is currently being investigated as a homicide and the investigation itself remains ongoing. Authorities have declared that no further information regarding the matter will be released at this time.
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