CAMDEN, Ark. — Officials in Camden and Ouachita County are expressing shock after an 18-year-old was found dead .

“We had recently lost a young man,” said Patric Flannigan, a member of the Camden City Council. “And so of course, I was thinking, ‘Oh no, not again.’ And then, of course, it turned into something else.”

The "something else" Flannigan referred to is the tragic death of 18-year-old Braden Roberson, whose body was found in a wooded area about thirty minutes south of Camden, near Norphlet.

“We don't have a lot of murders and things down here,” Flannigan said. “But when we do, it shocks everyone.”

Fellow city council member, Josh Steed, said a tragic event like Roberson’s death hits even harder in a place like Camden.

“It's tragic, because it hits home when you live in a to

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