Police received a call just after 8 a.m. about a body floating in the river.
PENNSAUKEN TWP. -- Emergency responders pulled a man's body from the Cooper River Thursday morning.
Police and firefighters were called to the river between Pennsauken and Collingswood shortly after 8 a.m. when a man rowing a boat reported seeing a body floating in the river.
It was about 50 yards from the running track at Jack Curtis Stadium, according to Pennsauken Police Capt. Thomas Connor.
Although the rower believed the man was deceased, Connor said police and firefighters prepared for a rescue operation. When they saw the man was deceased, they pulled his body from the river at the Camden County Boathouse at 7050 North Park Drive.
The body lay covered on the dock of the boathouse, but was uncovered when two investigators from the Camden County prosecutor's office arrived. The person appeared to be an adult black man wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
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Connor said the man's cause of death will likely be determined after an autopsy later Thursday.
He declined to speculate on how long the man had been deceased in the water.
"This is a well-used waterway," he said. "If something is in it, it doesn't go unreported long."
The area is rarely used for swimming, he said.
Collingswood firefighters also responded to the call on their side of the river.
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