BEND, OR -- Bend Police are investigating the death of a man found on the side of the highway, on the north end of town and say it is suspicious.
Officers responded Thursday, just before 9:30 a.m., to a request for a welfare check on Business 97, just south of the DMV. When they arrived, they found the man’s body in a ditch, near the Pacific Pride gas station.
Police identified the victim as 62-year-old David Carroll Hickman, of Bend, but released no other details on the ongoing investigation.
UPDATE (05/31/24) -- Bend Police arrested Brian Lee Wynn Friday. He's accused of Murder and Unlawful Use of a Weapon. Investigators say the autopsy of David Hickman revealed several injuries, and later identified 31-year-old Wynn as a person of interest.
