The body was that of Bernard Walker, 63, the coroner’s office said.
A 63-year-old man was found dead Friday morning (Nov. 17) after firefighters extinguished a fire at a room-and-board facility in the Slidell area, authorities said.
The St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office identified the man as Bernard Walker. An autopsy was being conducted Friday afternoon to determine the cause of death, a coroner’s spokesman said.
St. Tammany Parish sheriff’s detectives were called to 37476 Brown’s Village Road after firefighters put out a fire in a residential unit and found the body on a bed, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The blaze occurred at a six bedroom room-and-board building north of Interstate 12 and west of U. S. 11.
There were no working smoke detectors in the building, a spokesman for Fire District 1 said.
The Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the fire.
