Point Lookout, MD – What was intended to be a day of enjoyment in a nearby park for a Calvert County man, a teenage nephew and 8-year-old son led to a grisly discovery Sunday, Nov. 27. The location of a body at Point Lookout State Park in St. Mary’s County was made shortly before 1 p.m.
The Calvert man, who asked that his name not be released, told TheBayNet.com that he was taking photographs on the park’s causeway, when his son called out that he saw a man’s body washed up on the rocks. “We thought it was an 8-year-old’s imagination,” the man said. However when the two adults took a look for themselves they found the boy was correct. The boy’s father then called 911.
The body has since been identified as Ashley Vaughn Thompson, 31 of Oxon Hill, who was reported missing to authorities by his mother Nov. 13. According to Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) spokeswoman Candy Thomson, Ashley Thompson’s motor vehicle was found abandoned at the Point Lookout boat ramp Nov. 15. For two days NRP divers, K9 units and helicopter crew conducted a search of the water and shoreline but there was no sign of Ashley Thompson. Natural Resources Police then turned over their information on the case to the Prince George’s County Police Department.
St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Department detectives are conducting a death investigation. Thompson’s body was transported to Baltimore for an autopsy.
Shortly after NRP and St. Mary’s County authorities began their investigation following Sunday’s discovery, and a determination was made as to whose body had been discovered, information was released on Twitter that the body was not that of a missing fisherman who disappeared after a boating accident on the Potomac River the previous weekend.
Anyone who might have additional information that could aid investigators is asked to call St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Detective Skyler LeFave at 301-475-4200, ext. 1983.
Contact Marty Madden at marty.madden@thebaynet.com
Point Lookout, MD – The body of a man who had been reported missing in Prince George’s County was found Sunday afternoon, Nov. 27 washed up the rocks at the Point Lookout State Park causeway, police reported. According to Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) spokeswoman Candy Thomson, the body was discovered by a photographer who was taking pictures from the causeway. The body was subsequently turned over to the Prince George’s County Police Department. The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office reported that the body was discovered shortly before 1 p.m. St. Mary’s authorities are conducting a death investigation.
Thomson told TheBayNet.com that the man had been reported missing by a relative Nov. 13. Two days later a vehicle belonging to the missing man was discovered abandoned at the Point Lookout Boat Ramp. Natural Resources Police divers, K-9 units and helicopter conducted a search of the water and shoreline over the next two days. Thomson said all of the information from the two-day search was then turned over to Prince George’s authorities.
Police have identified the deceased as Ashley Thompson, 31 of Oxon Hill.
Contact Marty Madden at marty.madden@thebaynet.com
UPDATE
Point Lookout, MD – Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) reported around 3:30 p.m. that the body found washed ashore earlier this afternoon at Point Lookout State Park has been turned over to the Prince George’s County Police Department. TheBayNet.com has learned from a source close to the story that the Prince George’s case involves a missing person who disappeared earlier this month.
Point Lookout, MD — At approximately 1:40 p.m. Maryland Natural Resources Police reported they and other responders are on the scene investigating a body that has washed ashore in Point Lookout.
According to NRP, the body is not that of a boater who has been missing for over a week in Southern Maryland waterways.
