The Glynn County Police Department is investigating the death of a 66-year-old man after he was found dead on Thursday inside a home near St. Simons Island.
According to police, officers got a call in reference to a welfare check on an elderly woman who was seen wandering barefoot in the area of Frederica Road and Sylvan Drive. Officers tracked down the 67-year-old woman at a Glynn County Fire Rescue Station after a concerned citizen took her there. The woman appeared uninjured, police said.
When officers took her back to her home on Shore Rush Drive, police said they found her husband Lawrence Sullivan, 66, dead inside.
Glynn County Major Crimes Unit, Crime Scene Investigators, and the Glynn County Coroner’s Office responded to help with the investigation.
The woman was taken to the Southeast Georgia Health System in Brunswick where she is being treated and evaluated. Sullivan was transported to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy. Police said the cause and manner of death were unknown as of Friday.
No other details were released.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Criminal Investigations Division at 912-554-7802 or the non-emergency number, 912-554-3645.
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