Investigators are trying to determine if the death of a Roanoke-based aide to Sen. Jim Webb was a suicide.

Twenty-six-year-old Frederick Wayne Hutchins, Jr. was found dead Tuesday with a single gunshot wound to the head. The gun was found beneath the body.

Webb released a statement saying Hutchins was "one of the most honorable and friendly individuals I have had the pleasure of knowing."

Hutchins' body was taken to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy.