Chattanooga police and fire department officials at a site off Shallowford Road prepare for emergency response crews to send a boat upstream to retrieve a man's body found in South Chickamauga Creek.Map
South Chickamauga Creek
South Chickamauga Creek
Chattanooga police are working to recover the body of a man found floating in South Chickamauga Creek.
Police spokeswoman Sgt. Jerri Weary said two people kayakying in the creek spotted the body just before 5 p.m. She said the body was found half a mile from the Shallowford Road bridge near the intersection of Shallowford and Airport roads.
By 7 p.m., police were still working to pull the body from the river. The man has not been identified and no cause of death has been determined.
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