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A woman searching for a chicken thought to have wandered from her property found something entirely different behind the Walmart in Central Park.

While looking for the chicken about 11 a.m. Saturday, Kelly Waugh–Mudd came across a tent behind the store. She returned to her home on nearby Vidalia Street and got her husband and brother to help check out the tent, she said in an email. When they arrived at the tent, she said they noticed an odor and flies. They then looked inside the tent and discovered the body of a dead man.

That’s when her brother called police.

“We’re treating it as a local homeless person, being that he was living in a tent,” said Fredericksburg Police Department Capt. Rick Pennock. “He’d been dead for quite a while.”

The captain said the deceased person was a white man, but his identification is still unknown. The body was sent to the Medical Examiner’s Office for identification and cause of death.

“Right now we have no reason to believe there was any foul play,” Pennock said.

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