Crime & Safety
Update: Victim Identified in 'Suspicious Death' at Attkisson Truck Co.
The body of an employee was discovered Friday morning.
Staff reporting to work 9 a.m. Friday at Attkisson Truck and Equipment Sales discovered the body of a colleague on the property.
The Spotsylvania County Sheriff's office identified the victim as 61-year-old Mickey Wayne Jones, and called the death "suspicious."
"The victim appeared to have died as the result of a gunshot wound," said Capt. Jeff Pearce, spokesperson for the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office. "Spotsylvania Sheriff's deputies and CID detectives are treating it as a homicide investigation until or unless we find out differently."
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