Missing TN Man Eric Phillips ID’d As Body Pulled From Knoxville Tennessee River Friday Night

KNOXVILLE, TN. (THECOUNT) — Eric Phillips, the man who went missing after jumping from a Knoxville railroad bridge on Tuesday, has been identified as the body pulled from the Tennessee river on Friday night, according to officials.

The body of Phillips, 28, was recovered in the Tennessee River Friday night after he reportedly leapt from a bridge and never resurfaced.

Knoxville Police and Fire Department responded to Scottish Pike River Park, in Scottish Pike, Knoxville, TN, in the area of South Knoxville Tuesday evening on reports of a man in the water.

Witnesses said the man had gone missing after jumping from a railroad bridge into the Tennessee River in Knoxville after 7:30 Tuesday.

Phillips had been swimming with friends and walked approximately halfway across the railroad bridge located southwest of Lake Loudon Boulevard and Neyland Drive that extends over the Tennessee River.

Police say that the Phillips jumped from the bridge, briefly resurfaced, and then went under the water and did not resurface, reports WVLT.

An official cause of death was not provided Saturday morning.

Geo quick facts: Knoxville is a city on the Tennessee River in eastern Tennessee. Downtown, the Market Square district has 19th-century buildings with shops and restaurants. The Museum of East Tennessee History has interactive exhibits plus regional art, textiles and Civil War artifacts. James White’s Fort, built by the Revolutionary War captain, includes the reconstructed 1786 log cabin that was Knoxville’s first permanent building. Tennessee is a landlocked state in the U.S. South. Its capital, centrally located Nashville, is the heart of the country-music scene, with the long-running Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and a legendary stretch of honky-tonks and dance halls. Memphis, in the far southwest, is the home of Elvis Presley’s Graceland, rock-and-roll pioneering Sun Studio and the blues clubs of Beale Street – wikipedia.