NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
March 29, 2009
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

DEATH INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY

      The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of an Alabama man whose pickup truck washed off a roadway and became submerged in flood waters around Pond Creek Bridge on State Road 393 north of Dorcas Sunday.

      The victim has been identified as 75-year old John H. Stevens of 3737 Glen Chambers Road in Florala, Alabama. Witnesses say they saw his truck try to drive across a washed out road before a strong, deep current swept the truck off the pavement.

      Rescue workers were thwarted in their attempts to get to the truck by blocked, washed out roads and fast-moving, rising waters.

      An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday by the Okaloosa/Walton Medical Examiner's Office.

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