AREA DEATH INVESTIGATION

death-investigation

The Illinois State Police have been called in to assist in the investigation of a death and home invasion in Clay County. The Clay County Sheriffs Department received a report that 80 year old Roger Courson had been discovered dead this past Sunday morning in his home near the town of Edgewood by a family member. Additional investigation revealed that a safe, multiple firearms and a TV were missing from the residence. The cause and manner of Coursons’ death remain pending with the case still open and ongoing. No other information regarding the death is being released