Update: Body Found Floating in Tennessee River

Rescue crews pull a body out of the Tennessee River and now police are trying to figure out exactly how Christopher John Friberg died.

We've learned that police have been able to identify this person who has long brown hair and was wearing blue jeans. But right now police are not indicating if this was an accident, a suicide, or a murder.

Emergency crews rolled a body that had been in the Tennessee River up to an ambulance around 5:00 Tuesday night. The ambulance took the body to the Medical Examiner's office.

And now Police tell us the victim is 39 year old Christopher John Friberg. We're told a female kayaker noticed Friberg's body on the bank of the Tennessee River this afternoon.

Detective Jeff Dean, with the Police Department's Missing Person's Division, says Friberg's body didn't appear to have been in the water long, but he says it's hard to be accurate while a body is still in the water.

"The water can play tricks on the eyes when you're looking at somebody in the water or be one hundred percent accurate," Detective Dean says. "We pulled people out of rivers before that we thought were female and pulled them out and they were male and vice versa you know the water does strange things to the body if they've been in there for any time at all."

Police tell us they found the body in the brush near Moccasin Bend. Right now they say they're not sure what killed Friberg but it did not take long for them identify his body.

"If it's somebody local, locally usually we get them id fairly quickly even if the report hasn't been made," Dean says.

The Police Department tells us they have several missing persons in the area but they say that Friberg was not on that list.

Police tell us his autopsy should be finished on Wednesday.

We've also learned Friberg was charged with vandalism earlier this year and was supposed to appear in court again on December 3rd.