Suspicious Death, Watch Night, Water Bottle Assault and Christmas Crook

By Greg Hambrick

Employees at Attkisson Truck and Equipment Sales discovered the body of a coworker when they arrived at work Friday morning.

"The victim appeared to have died as the result of a gunshot wound," said Capt. Jeff Pearce, spokesman for the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office. Investigators are treating the case as a homicide "until or unless we find out differently," he said.

Read more about the discovery and the victim's identity, along with other top stories from our area Patch sites in our daily digest.

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