The Franklin County coroner will be doing an autopsy this morning on the body of a man that was found Tuesday afternoon in the Scioto River just south of Downtown. Sgt. David Sicilian said police hope to have an identification of the body and cause of death after the autopsy results come in. It was described as a man in his 20s.

The Franklin County coroner will be doing an autopsy this morning on the body of a man that was found Tuesday afternoon in the Scioto River just south of Downtown.

Sgt. David Sicilian said police hope to have an identification of the body and cause of death after the autopsy results come in. It was described as a man in his 20s.

The body was found half-submerged in the river south of Whittier Street, near the Scioto Audubon Metro Park.

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The Columbus police special victims unit has been routinely searching waterways because of an increase in missing persons in the area, Sicilian said. Officers went in the river Tuesday morning and found the body around 1 p.m.

It was fully clothed, they said, but it was too early to say whether there were any wounds on the body. Police, however, said they are treating the death as "suspicious."

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