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The Kosciusko County Coroner has identified the deceased male found in the Tippecanoe River yesterday as 65-year old Thomas Schmeltz of Bourbon, IN. The preliminary cause of death has been determined to be drowning.

ORIGINAL POST:

Kosciusko County- Detectives with the Indiana State Police are conducting a death investigation after a body was found earlier today.

Around 3:00 p.m. today, May 8, 2019, Indiana Conservation Officers located the body of a man in the Tippecanoe River in Kosciusko County near SR 10 and SR 19.

Positive identification has not been made at this time and an autopsy is scheduled.