Man found dead on Tennessee River identified, foul play suspected

Investigators with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department and TWRA remove a boat from the Chickamauga Lake behind a house on Johnson Rd. near Birchwood on Wednesday. The body of a man was removed from the scene earlier Wednesday morning.

Photo by John Rawlston /Chattanooga Times Free Press.

A man found dead in a boat on the Tennessee River has been identified as Donald Rogers of Cleveland, Tenn.

The circumstances of Rogers’s death are under investigation, but the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office suspects foul play, sheriff spokeswoman Janice Atkinson said.

Other boaters found Rogers’ body on the river about 9 a.m. Wednesday near Birchwood.

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