The Southwestern Judicial Circuit district attorney was found shot dead Sunday, according the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

“At approx 2:22 p.m. yesterday, a call was received by Leslie Police Chief Bob Smith that a male was found deceased in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck located at 116 East Allen St., Leslie, Georgia,” the GBI’s public information officer said Monday. “When officers arrived they identified the male as Plez Hardin, age 48.”