A 22-year-old Tanner man was discovered dead late Tuesday afternoon when his friend, with whom he spent the night, came home and found him unresponsive on the living room sofa.

Jericho “Rico” Hines of Page Road, Tanner, was last seen alive about 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to Rico Allen, who owned the mobile home at 12022-1 Huntsville-Brownsferry Road at Railroad Avenue where Hines spent the night, according to Sheriff’s Investigator Stanley McNatt.

McNatt said Allen told investigators he left the mobile home Tuesday morning and thought Hines was still asleep and didn’t try to wake him. Allen returned home about 4:45 p.m. and tried to awaken Hines. He found Hines unresponsive and called 911.

Hines had been moved from the sofa to the living room floor in preparation to do CPR, McNatt said, but Allen and a neighbor he summoned realized it was too late.

Investigators said there were no visible signs of trauma on Hines’ body and they are calling it an “unattended death.” Assistant Coroner Andy Jackson sent the body to the state forensic lab in Huntsville for an autopsy. He said he would have to wait on toxicology tests.

McNatt said family members told him Hines had no health problems, but had complained of headaches in recent days.

A friend of Hines’, Amy Stringer, 24, of Athens, said she saw Hines about 2 a.m. Tuesday and he was in good health.

“He was a good friend,” she said. “I’ve known him a couple of years. He was nice, wonderful, outstanding. He would make you laugh.”

Hines went to Tanner High School and was a laborer, Stringer said.

“And he was the bomb,” she said, meaning he was also handsome.