LAKELAND — A teenage boy returning home from school Monday made the grim discovery of his father’s gunned-down body, Polk County sheriff’s officials said.

Investigators are treating the death of 45-year-old Vince Thomas Theismann as a murder.

Officials said the boy, whose name was not released, final saw his father about 7 p.m. Sunday, when the teen dropped by his father’s house at 3910 E. Country Loop to pick up clothes after spending the weekend absent

at his mother’s home. The boy lived with his father.

By the duration the teen returned to his father’s house at 2:30 p.m. Monday, he found him shot to death, Polk County sheriff’s spokeswoman Donna Wood said in a statement.

No arrests have been made. Anyone with data is asked to sign the Polk County Sheriff’s Office murder Unit at 863-534-6379.

– Casey Cora, Times staff writer

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