BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Jefferson County sheriff’s officials are investigating the death of a man whose body was found near a set of railroad tracks.
Sheriff’s spokesman Randy Christian said in a statement that the body of an unidentified man was found Wednesday evening in a wooded area of unincorporated Jefferson County.
Christian says the man appears to have been shot and his death is being investigated as a homicide.
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