RedactedNarrative: Officer advised that from the information they had obtained the subject had went kayaking on the driftwood river near the tannehill trailer park in the morning on 4/4/18 and had not been heard from since. 
  
  
  From the information they had obtained and the face book posts it appeared that Victim had taken his kayak from his residence in tannehill trailer park and launched it on the driftwood river, which was extremely flooded due to very heavy rains that we had received. They advised his truck was still at his residence so it was likely that he had taken the kayak and walked from his residence to heflin park, which is located directly behind his residence and is located next to the driftwood river. They also had found out that Victim did not have a life jacket and never wore one when he kayaked. 
  
  We located a blue sun dolphin kayak, which we were advised by the family was the kind of kayak Victim owned. The kayak was upright in the trees out of the main river channel. There was nothing in the kayak and no signs of Victim around it. We retrieved the kayak and searched the river back upstream to where we had launched but did not locate Victim. Upon arrival back at the command site family members confirmed that the kayak was Victims.
  
     the drones and helicopter continued to search the area of the river from our location south, checking as far south as azalia but were unable to locate Victim. Later in the afternoon we decided to launch bartholomew county's air boat at the command site and they would search the fields down along the river to see if Victim had possibly been washed out into the fields. At approximately 16:00 hrs. The air boat crew advised that they had located a body. The body was stuck in debris just outside of the main river channel. The body was loaded into the air boat and taken to the bank where it was turned over to the coroner's office. The body was approximately 100 yards downstream of where Victim's kayak was located. A family member later positively identified the body to be Victim. At the time he was located he was wearing a red shirt, blue jeans that were pulled down to his ankles and underwear. Victim was not wearing a life jacket when he was located.
  
     an autopsy was performed on april 7th. The preliminary examination did not show any signs of homicide but the final determination of cause of death is still pending toxicology reports.
  
    on 04-20-2018, the autopsy report concluded that the cause of death was asphyxia due to drowning, accidental.
  