Country music star Tyler Rich shocked his fans over the weekend by revealing that he found a dead body on New Year’s Eve while he was out for a run.

Rich, 34, took to social media to reveal that his 2020 ended for him with the massive shock of finding a dead body. He explained that he had been 2.5 miles into his run at Chicopee State Park in Massachusetts when he “ran across a dam” and was “looking for a way to cut up the hill back to the path.”

“I then saw what I thought was a young homeless man sleeping,” Rich wrote on Twitter. “He was on his stomach and had a bag tied around his foot and was faced down. … After running around him, I felt bad for him, he was sleeping facedown and just looked like he was in a bad place.”

It was only when Rich turned around to check on the man that he realized he was not breathing.

“As I get around to the front of him, all I see is a lifeless face covered in blood. Everywhere,” he recalled. “Looked like maybe shot, or blunt force. At this moment I freak out and sprint up the steep hill to try and find anyone with a phone to call police.”

Rich immediately called the police, and when officers arrived on the scene, they found a gun in the dead man’s hand.

“It potentially could have been a suicide,” the singer said. “Not that there is any type of thing that could help me cope with finding him like this.”

The outpour of support, & prayer I’ve received from you all, for him, his family, & everyone involved is incredible. Community is so important, remember to tell people how much you love them, & to talk to someone, anyone, when you are feeling lost and alone, cause you’re not 🖤 pic.twitter.com/Idx9dNu06K

— Tyler Rich (@TylerRichMusic) January 2, 2021

Rich went on to say that the 24 hours after finding the body were “rough.”

“Not the way I planned on closing out 2020,” he tweeted. “This will be an image & moment I’ll never forget. I need to shoutout first responders & our military that look death in the eye every day, and are able to continue to live their everyday lives.”

Rich later added that he has since been in contact with the mother of the victim, and he was saddened by the similarities he had with him.

“I don’t think anyone in the area could have found him that understood him quite like me. II really feel this was meant to be. I wish I got to meet him, have a beer with him, and talk about what was hurting him so much. I’m broken over this and I didn’t even know him,” Rich wrote. “Hug your loved ones as tight as you can today.”