MYAKKA CITY, FL. (THECOUNT) — Antonio Maurice Bradley has been identified as the body found burning along a roadway in Myakka City on Wednesday.

A bystander contacted police after spotting Bradley’s body on fire at 11:20 p.m. Wednesday on the west side of M-J Road, in Myakka City, FL.

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Bradley, whose age was not provided, had been staying in Bradenton but has also lived in Sarasota.

Manatee County emergency responders were dispatched to the grisly scene to extinguished the flames.

Bradley was pronounced dead at the scene.

A cause of death was not provided.

Detectives are investigating his death as a homicide. source

Anyone with information on the deadly incident should contact police at 911.

Myakka City is an unincorporated community in southeastern Manatee County, Florida, United States. It lies along State Road 70 near the city of Bradenton, the county seat of Manatee County, according to Wikipedia.