State Police are investigating the suspicious death of 55-year-old Thomas A. Hickman of Richland Hills, Texas, whose body was found Saturday morning by a passing motorist on U.S. 84 southeast of Santa Rosa, State Police said in a news release.

Hickman, the regional manager of Red Lobster restaurants in West Texas, was described as a churchgoing family man who was caring for his ill wife who was last seen at a business meeting on the morning of March 13 in Abilene, Texas, the release said.

He left that meeting and was supposed to have checked in at a hotel in Lubbock for another business meeting on March 14 but never showed up, according to the release.

The Abilene, Texas, Police Department reported him as a missing person on March 14.

His charcoal gray 2008 Jeep Laredo with Texas plates was found abandoned near the body Saturday morning, and Hickman had suffered a single gunshot wound, the release said.

State Police are looking for information from anyone who may have seen Hickman -- described as 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 260 pounds, with a receding hairline and salt-and-pepper hair and mustache -- between Abilene and New Mexico.

The State Police number is (505) 827-9300. 

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