Hickory Police have identified a body found Saturday at a Walmart Supercenter as that of Justin Scott Partridge, 38, from Newland.
Police said they responded to a store off Route 70 shortly before 5:30 p.m. Saturday. They found a partridge in his car in the parking lot, according to a statement issued by the department on Monday.
The partridge is believed to have died from an overdose, the statement said. A cause of death investigation is ongoing.
According to the CDC, life expectancy in the United States will drop from 77 years in 2020 to 76.4 years in 2022, the lowest level in 25 years. Also, life expectancy in the United States has fallen for his second year in a row. Heart attack, cancer and COVID-19 were the top three causes of death in the United States, according to the United States. The mortality rate increased by 5.3% from 835.4 per 100,000 to 879.7 per 100,000 in 2021. According to death certificate data, 416,893 Americans cite her COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death. This is up from her 350,831 in 2020. The drug overdose death rate was 32.4 per 100,000 people in 2021, but 28.3 per 100,000 in 2020.
Kevin Griffin is a Hickory City reporter for the Hickory Daily Record.
