The family of 33-year-old Collingwood Turnquest Jr. is reeling from an unthinkable, sudden tragedy after the young man was discovered deceased on a remote south-western shoreline roughly one mile off Marshall Road last Saturday morning. Turnquest, a hardworking local resident who had been scheduled to meet a group of fellow crew members for a pre-planned fishing excursion that same day, never showed up at their pre-arranged meeting point. Growing increasingly concerned after repeated failed attempts to reach him, his fishing companions launched a targeted search of areas they knew he frequented, where they ultimately located his lifeless body and immediately notified local law enforcement. First responders were dispatched to the scene shortly after 10 a.m., where officers found a white unoccupied van parked near the shoreline alongside Turnquest’s body, which bore an apparent gunshot wound to the face. A shotgun was recovered in close proximity to the remains, and on-site Emergency Medical Services teams conducted a full assessment that confirmed the 33-year-old had no vital signs upon their arrival. Initially, investigating officers tentatively labeled the incident a suspected suicide, but updated their official classification days later to flag the death as suspicious, launching a full open investigation into all surrounding circumstances that have yet to be publicly disclosed. In a raw, heart-wrenching public tribute posted to Facebook, Turnquest’s mother Cleopatra Turnquest shared that her heart is “broken beyond words” in the wake of losing her firstborn child, who she described as a quiet, introverted man who privately carried unspoken personal struggles that he rarely shared with even his closest loved ones. She noted that despite the unshared burdens he carried, Turnquest showed up for his responsibilities every single day, working tirelessly and never letting friends or family suspect that he might be in distress. “If only we had known the weight you were carrying,” she wrote in the emotional post, adding that she never could have imagined she would have to say goodbye to her eldest son at such a young age. Cleopatra emphasized that being the mother of Collingwood Turnquest Jr. was one of the greatest honors of her entire life, as he was the child who first made her a parent. “Oh, my precious son, how I wish I could hold you just one more time, hear your voice, see your smile, and tell you once again how deeply you are loved,” she wrote. “A part of me has gone with you, and life will never be quite the same. Forever my baby. Forever my son. Forever a part of me.” Local police have stated that no additional details about the ongoing suspicious death investigation will be released to the public at this time as forensic teams and detectives continue to piece together the full sequence of events that led to Turnquest’s death.