SAN ANTONIO — A 62-year-old man's remains were found submerged in the San Antonio River on his birthday Friday afternoon when a jogger made the discovery and contacted police, according to Bexar County officials.
The local medical examiner's office identified the man as Roy Tavitas. An official cause of death has yet to be made, but police on Friday said there were "no signs of forced trauma or obvious signs of injury."
His body was recovered in the King William neighborhood, near the 400 block of King William Street, in a portion of the river that authorities said is about six feet deep.
“In most cases when we have a deceased person in a body of water, it’s floating or drifting by," Washington Moscoso, an officer with the San Antonio Police Department, said at the scene. "This one was completely submerged.”
Moscoso said Tavitas was possibly weighed down by steel-toed boots he was wearing.
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