A 19-Year-Old Found A Dead Body While Playing Pokémon

"I was crying and shaking really bad because it was a very scary situation."

Shayla Wiggins, a 19-year-old from Riverton, Wyoming, found a dead body in a river Friday morning while playing Pokémon Go.

"As I looked one way, I noticed that there was something in the water in front of me," she said. "And so I took a closer look and saw it was a body."

Wiggins then dialed 911 and waited by the highway for police to arrive.

"I was crying and shaking really bad because it was a very scary situation," she said.

In a statement provided to KCWY News 13, the Fremont County Sheriff's Office said "the death appears to be accidental in nature and possibly that of a drowning."

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“At this time the investigation is ongoing," the statement said. "Further details as to the circumstances surrounding the death will be released after preliminary autopsy results are received and we have a clearer picture of what occurred.”

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