Public's help sought to identify man found dead at car wash

Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 7:00 AM

By Shelby Lopez

The Howard County Coroner's Office is asking the public for help in identifying a man found dead at a Kokomo car wash Friday, July 5.

According to a press release, the coroner's office had been called late Friday evening about a death investigation for a John Doe that had been found at the car wash on West Sycamore Street. The coroner provided a description, stating John Doe is a white male, approximately 5 feet and 10 inches tall and 190 lbs, with short brown-gray hair that was crewcut, and a short beard with a mustache. The unidentified man may have been diabetic, and was found wearing black and yellow swim trunks and gray-blue tennis shoes, and carried a backpack.

The man also had multiple tattoos, including arm tattoos of a wolf's face with the initials "K.A.W." over it, a large cross and a horned animal skull on his calf. Photos of those three tattoos were provided in the press release. Anyone with more information on the identity of John Doe is asked to call the Howard County Coroner's Office at 765-456-1186, or 765-457-1105.