An elderly man killed in a Jefferson County mobile home fire earlier this week has now been identified.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Freddy Lee Abernathy. He was 88 and lived in the Rock Creek community.

Concord and Birmingport firefighters and Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched at 6 a.m. Wednesday to the 7200 block of Taylors Ferry Road, said sheriff’s Lt. Joni Money.

Abernathy was pronounced dead on the scene at 7:05 a.m.

Money said the Alabama State Fire Marshal’s Office will be investigating the circumstances surrounding the cause of the fire.  No foul play is suspected.