CHEROKEE COUNTY, Texas —  A 20-year-old man was found dead Sunday evening after his truck was discovered upside down and submerged in a creek west of Jacksonville, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.

The sheriff’s office says they received a report of a missing person around 8:30 a.m. Sunday. The man had last been seen driving his truck, and deputies used license plate reader systems in Tyler, Athens and surrounding areas to try to locate the vehicle.

Around 6 p.m., a passerby spotted the overturned truck in a creek along County Road 3305 and called 911. Emergency responders arrived to find the vehicle fully submerged.

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