SC police investigate body found outside church

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Investigators are looking into the discovery of a man’s dead boy found lying in front of a Greenville church.

Greenville County Deputy Coroner Mike Ellis says the body of 50-year-old Billy Joe Jamison was found Monday in front of Long Branch Baptist Church.

Ellis says Jamison likely died sometime between midnight and 2 a.m.

The coroner’s office says the cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries. But investigators are still trying to determine the manner of death — in other words, how Jamison came to be injured.

Investigators including the Greenville City Police Department are treating the death as suspicious.