NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — State officials are investigating a fatal kayak accident on the Chicahominy River.

Department of Game and Inland Fisheries spokesman Lee Walker identified the victim as 52-year-old James Othel McDonald of Newport News.

Walker tells WAVY-TV (http://bit.ly/10iOqUW ) that duck hunters found McDonald’s body on Saturday afternoon about a mile from his kayak.

Walker says initial reports indicate that the kayak had rolled over.

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Information from: WAVY-TV, http://www.wavy.com/

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