Hoping the public can help identify him, sheriff’s detectives have released a description, along with the photo of a tattoo, of a man found dead in a pile of coal early Monday.
| Dead Man’s Tattoo |
The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Department also issued a statement saying an autopsy on the unidentified victim showed he died of blunt-force trauma to the head.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad workers found the dead man at about 3:45 a.m. on Monday, as they were dumping coal from rail cars at the W.A. Parish Power Plant near the small community of Thompsons. His body tumbled from one of the cars as the coal was discharged.
“He was covered in coal,” spokeswoman Terriann Carlson said at the time, adding that the body was taken to the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office where the autopsy was performed.
On Wednesday, sheriff’s investigators released the dead man’s description: A white male with dark hair, between 25 and 35 years old, 5 feet, 1 inch tall and weighing 157 pounds. The man had a tattoo on his right shoulder with the letters RUSH inside a circle. Detectives also said two of the man’s fingers “were painted with blue nail polish.”
The Burlington Northern train in which the man’s body was discovered delivered the coal from a mining operation in Wyoming. On Wednesday, detectives released a map showing the train traveled south through Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico before reaching Texas.
“Investigators will pursue this investigation from the point of departure to its destination, as well as any stops in between,” the Monday sheriff’s report stated.
On Wednesday, the department said investigators have asked all state and local law enforcement agencies to check missing persons’ reports in order to help identify the dead man.
Anyone with information on the identity of the victim, or the circumstances surrounding his death, is asked to contact the sheriff’s department at 281-341-4665, or Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at 281-342-8477.
The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Department also issued a statement saying an autopsy on the unidentified victim showed he died of blunt-force trauma to the head.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad workers found the dead man at about 3:45 a.m. on Monday, as they were dumping coal from rail cars at the W.A. Parish Power Plant near the small community of Thompsons. His body tumbled from one of the cars as the coal was discharged.
