Police found a body floating in one of Arkansas' most popular recreational lakes Friday. On a nearby dock on Lake Catherine, investigators also found a gun and a lot of blood. Police in the in the Diamondhead Resort community and the Garland County Sheriff's Department are trying to figure out what happened.

Despite the roar of boat engines and jet skis the Diamondhead Resort on Lake Catherine is usually a relatively quiet community. Crime and acts of violence are almost unheard of.

"The worst crime might be a loose dog running through your yard," says neighbor Michael Oetken.

But Friday morning, police came to 218 Meadowcliff Drive after a woman who lives there found blood and a gun on the boat dock behind the home. When Diamondhead Police got here they found Bruce Edwards floating in the water a few feet from the bank. He'd been shot once in the leg.

Diamondhead Police Chief Pat Mahoney says Edwards owned the boat dock and his wife called police. With little information to go on, Mahoney called Garland County Sheriff's Department to help with the investigation. The chief wants to get to the bottom of what happened to his friend and neighbor.

"He was a nice gentleman I’ve known him for about eight or nine years," says Chief Mahoney.

Authorities won’t say whether Edwards shot himself or someone shot him. “We don't speculate on that we work everything as homicide and then work backwards that way we try not to miss anything," says Chief Mahoney.

Michael Oetken hopes they piece this together soon. He says no matter the outcome, Edwards’s death is tragic. "They're friendly people kind of like everybody is around here it's a small town."

The small town is hoping this isn’t the start of big city problems.