No foul play suspected after lifeless body found in yard
CBC News
Posted: Mar 14, 2013 9:14 PM ET
Last Updated: Mar 15, 2013 9:51 AM ET
Police investigate the area where a man's body was found late Thursday afternoon. (Nicole Ireland/CBC)
Thunder Bay police detectives have determined there was no foul play in the death man whose body was found in a city yard.
The body of the 34-year-old was found late Thursday afternoon. A post mortem will be conducted Monday to confirm the cause of death, police said. The man has been identified, and his family has been notified.A passerby told CBC News he was walking down an alley near Leith and May Streets around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, when he saw the motionless body in a yard behind a house at 221 Leith St.
After police arrived, word travelled around the neighbourhood.
"We were just waiting for a bus," said Alex Andy. "Two people told us about it … that there's a dead person lying back there."
Andy rushed over because he was worried the victim might be a woman he knew lived in the area.
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