Waynesboro police investigating suspicious death

Photo from the Waynesboro Police Department website

Date: January 27, 2022

The Waynesboro Police Department is investigating a suspicious death that was discovered 11:21 a.m. Thursday, Jan 27. The body of a 38-year-old Black male was discovered in a parked car in the Pizza Hut parking lot located on North Liberty Street. The police are treating the death as suspicious; however, no possible cause of death has been released.

According to Burke County Coroner Val Prescott, his office is in custody of the body and no further details are available at the moment pending notification of next of kin.

What to Read Next

The Author

Comment Policy

The Augusta Press encourages and welcomes reader comments; however, we request this be done in a respectful manner, and we retain the discretion to determine which comments violate our comment policy. We also reserve the right to hide, remove and/or not allow your comments to be posted.

The types of comments not allowed on our site include:

  • Threats of harm or violence
  • Profanity, obscenity, or vulgarity, including images of or links to such material
  • Racist comments
  • Victim shaming and/or blaming
  • Name calling and/or personal attacks;
  • Comments whose main purpose are to sell a product or promote commercial websites or services;
  • Comments that infringe on copyrights;
  • Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile.