YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — An autopsy showed that a homeless man whose body was found along the Naches River died of a heart attack.
KAPP-TV reports the coroner found that 49-year-old Billy Joe Stricklin suffered from obesity and had drugs in his sytem that indicated he was being treated for depression.
He apparently was dead a couple of days before his body was found Tuesday by a man gathering firewood along the river between Yakima and Selah.
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Information from: KAPP-TV, http://www.kapptv.com/
