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The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office responded to a suicide in Walnut Canyon on Sunday.

Sheriff’s deputies found Santa Fe, N.M., resident Christopher Preston, 49, deceased a short distance from Island Trail near Walnut Canyon National Monument.

He was reported dead by gunshot wound.

Deputies were alerted to the incident when a friend told law enforcement that Preston had texted him stating that his body could be found “in a canyon east of Flagstaff beneath the island.”

Search and rescue teams as well as Arizona Department of Public Safety Rangers recovered the body on Monday.

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