LAKEPORT, Calif. – Police have identified a man whose body was found in Forbes Creek on Tuesday morning.

Charles Richard Goodrich, 65, of Lakeport was found deceased in the creek bed, according to Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen.

Rasmussen said Lakeport Police officers and Lakeport Fire Protection District paramedics were dispatched at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday to the 200 block of S. Brush Street on the report of a man down in the creek bed.

When they arrived they found Goodrich, who paramedics determined had died, Rasmussen said.

Rasmussen said Goodrich’s death appears to be accidental but the investigation is continuing.

He said an autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.

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