Police are investigating after the body of an 8-year-old boy was discovered Thursday night behind his grandmother’s northwest Georgia home.
Walker County dispatchers received a 911 call about 8 p.m. after the boy’s body was discovered in some woods about 50 yards from the home in the 100 block of Old Grand Center Road in Chickamauga, according to the sheriff’s office.
The scene is about 115 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta.
Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson told AJC.com that the child, identified as Bentley Carter Robbins, fell ill Thursday at Chattanooga Valley Elementary School and went home early. He was picked up around 10 a.m. by his mother.
The second grader’s body was discovered about 10 hours later by his grandmother and his mother’s boyfriend, authorities said. Robbins lived next door to his grandmother, and there were two mobile homes on the property where he was found, Wilson added.
He said he doesn’t suspect foul play, but that he hasn’t ruled it out.
The child’s body will be taken to the GBI Crime Lab in DeKalb County, where authorities will work to determine a cause of death.
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