FREDERICKTOWN – When a 31-year old man failed to show up for work in Mount Vernon he was missed. His landlord went to the man’s Columbus Road apartment just after 2 a.m. Monday and found the man deceased. FPD Chief Roger Brown says drug paraphernalia was discovered close to the body and its suspected the man died of a drug overdose. That has not yet been confirmed.
If it is determined the man died of a drug overdose, Chief Brown says this it is the first such overdose death ever in the village of Fredericktown.
KnoxPages.com has contacted Knox County Coroner Dr. Jennifer Ogle for more information.