Investigators Give Updates After Pair Of Bodies Found In Fosters Area Sunday Morning

TUSCALOOSA, AL — Investigators with the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit are actively working leads and trying to piece together the circumstances that led to the bodies of two men found Sunday morning in Fosters within just a few miles of one another.

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Captain Jack Kennedy, commander of the multiagency unit, told local media on Sunday that the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office received the initial call of suspicious activity on Interstate 59 near the 62 mile marker eastbound near Fosters.

He then said while deputies were on their way to the scene, another call was received from a witness driving a commercial truck that believed he had struck somebody on the interstate.

State Troopers responded to the scene as investigators worked to determine if the death was an accident, with evidence discovered at the scene prompting investigators to consider it a homicide.

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Approximately 45 minutes later, just before 7 a.m. Sunday morning, Kennedy said another call was received reporting that an individual was laying right off of the roadway on Frog Ridge Road in Fosters.

Kennedy went on to say that based on evidence discovered at the scenes, investigators began to work under the presumption that criminal activity was involved in the two deaths. He also said the two bodies were found between 3 and 5 miles from one another Sunday morning.

"Whether or not they are connected or not, we are operating under that presumption but we done have the evidence to say that with certainty," he said.

With the investigation in its early stages, Kennedy declined to provide much in the way of identifying information regarding the two bodies, saying only that they were Black males.

Kennedy did, however, ask for the public's help in regards to a white sedan or car that might have been in the area around Frog Ridge Road, Gainesville Road and the interstate.

"We have some active leads right now that we won't be able to divulge, but because of those [leads] we do not believe there is any threat to the community right now," Kennedy said.

Kennedy asked anyone with information into these two homicide investigations to contact the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit at (205) 464-8690.

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