OPP NEWS RELEASE
******************************* Suspicious death in Kapuskasing being investigated
(Kapuskasing, Ontario) – The Ontario Provincial Police are currently investigating the death of a 74-year-old man found deceased yesterday, Monday August 2, 2004, near the Town of Moonbeam.
Officers from Kapuskasing Detachment responded to a call yesterday at approximately 5:15 p.m. that a body had been discovered near the edge of the roadway on St. Joseph’s Road near the Town of Moonbeam.
The officers found the man deceased.
At this time, the death is being treated as suspicious.
The body of the male is being transported to the Office of the Chief Coroner, Toronto where a postmortem examination is scheduled for tomorrow to determine the cause of death.
Identification of the deceased is being withheld while police attempt to locate and notify next of kin.
The investigation is continuing by officers from the Northeast Region Crime Unit, Identification Unit and Kapuskasing detachment, under the direction of OPP Detective Inspector Bob Lemieux, Criminal Investigation Branch.
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