White/Caucasian. David Merrit, 39, male, was found on the morning of May 30, 2025, along the northbound side of the Whitesburg Bridge on U.S. 231/431 at the edge of Huntsville. He had been left near a guard rail, wrapped in a blanket, a discovery that drew sheriff’s deputies and Huntsville police to a span that commuters know for its sweeping view of the river. By that afternoon, the coroner’s preliminary findings pointed to a gunshot wound as the cause of death, setting in motion a homicide
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