Nearly three months after the body of former Foley & Mansfield partner and federal prosecutor Beranton Whisenant Jr. was found on a beach in Hollywood, Florida, local police have determined how he died.

Investigators concluded that Whisenant, 37, killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A statement from Hollywood police on Aug. 10 said that detectives and a medical examiner had made the determination. Whisenant's fully clothed body was found by a passerby in the surf in May. Police subsequently pulled his body ashore, but a weapon was not recovered.

Whisenant, a father of three children, worked for the major crimes unit at the U.S. attorney's office in Miami, which he joined in January after more than nine years at Foley & Mansfield. At the national litigation firm, where he made partner in 2013, Whisenant mostly focused on asbestos suits. He specialized in product liability, medical malpractice, securities litigation and toxic torts work.