Dale County Sheriff Mason Bynum said the body of Demarcus "Sam" McKenzie II, 27, of Skipperville, was found in a residential driveway in the 5500 block of County Road 33 Saturday morning.
The sheriff initially said during the preliminary investigation, it appeared that McKenzie had sustained a gunshot wound to the head, however, further investigation revealed it was a dog attack.
Bynum said witness statements and physical evidence did not support the initial shooting assumptions. He confirmed McKenzie was not shot and his death is no longer a homicide investigation.
Comment: Reuters provides further details: The BBC adds: They say that vacationers hadn't taken into account the weather forecast, but there were hundreds of people were camping there, could it be perhaps that they weren't expecting the storm to be as ferocious as it was? After all, it damaged buildings, and it is the summertime.
Could it instead be that, rather than this being merely the vacationers fault, that this storm was unusually intense? Which would also fit with a pattern seen across the northern hemisphere so far this summer season which has seen a spike in downbursts and deadly hail: