Waco, Texas ? Medical examiners Sunday identified a body found in chest-high weeds near Waco as that of Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy, who had been missing since June 19.

McLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch provided no other details on the condition of the body or the possible cause of death, but said Dennehy’s family had been notified.

The site where the body was found is north of gravel pits where authorities searched after Carlton Dotson, who played basketball at Baylor last season and had been living with Dennehy since spring, was arrested last week and charged with his murder.

Investigators had continued to comb through the high weeds Sunday, collecting evidence in a field where they found Dennehy’s decomposed body Friday night.

“With that evidence collected today, they were able to make a positive identification,” Lynch said, refusing to specify what evidence was found.

McLennan County Justice of the Peace Belinda Summers told the Associated Press that searchers found a head Sunday morning in the same field where the body was discovered.

Sunday, authorities used farm equipment to cut down tall weeds and grass, some as high as seven feet tall, in a rural area about five miles south of Waco.

The body found Friday was taken to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy.

Dotson, 21, was arrested last week in his home state of Maryland on a murder charge from Texas. He remained jailed without bond awaiting extradition to Texas.

Dotson was arrested July 21 after calling 911, saying he needed help because he was hearing voices, authorities said. Waco police said Dotson told FBI agents in Maryland that he shot Dennehy after the player tried to shoot him. But after his arrest, Dotson told the Associated Press that “he didn’t confess to anything.”

Richard Guinn, whose son R.T. Guinn plays basketball at Baylor, said he and his son were saddened by the news.

“It’s devastating,” Richard Guinn said Sunday night. “It’s sad on our part and everybody else’s — for Waco and Baylor. And yet it’s closure that now we know we found him. I wish he’d been found alive.”

An investigator in a cowboy hat was placing small yellow flags around the site indicating pieces of evidence Sunday. At times, as he moved around, the grasses obscured all but the top of his hat. Throughout the day authorities in crime scene vans and other vehicles traveled the dirt road back and forth to the site.

Lynch has declined to say exactly where the body was found or if a weapon had been recovered.

Dennehy’s girlfriend, Jessica De La Rosa of Albuquerque, N.M., said authorities told her the body was found in weeds near the gravel pits.

Dennehy’s family has decided not return to Waco, De La Rosa said Sunday afternoon, hours before the identification was announced.