The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the Arkansas State Police, is conducting a homicide investigation into the death of 19-year-old Alexzander Drake Bernhardt, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post.
According to the post, Carroll County dispatchers received a call at 8:37 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9, about a male lying in the middle of a county road in the northern Oak Grove area.
Medical and law enforcement personnel were dispatched to the scene and located Bernhardt, who was later pronounced dead at the scene, the Facebook post says, adding that the body would be sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab to determine the cause and manner of death.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the sheriff’s office at 870-423-7373, the Facebook post says.
More information will be provided as the investigation progresses, according to the Facebook post.