NHPD
Rescue workers pulled the dead body of a middle-aged man from the Quinnipiac River Monday afternoon.
Police officers, firefighters, and a Coast Guard boat crew retrieved the body after the tender of the Grand Avenue Bridge reported seeing it in the water around 1 p.m.
The body was located “several hundred feet east of the first anchored navigation market buoy in the center of the river, adjacent to Pierpont and Front Streets,” police spokesman Officer David Hartman reported in a release.
Hartman said the man was white, had a grey and light brown beard and moustache, and “a noticeable scar on his sternum,” probably from surgery. He estimated the man to have been in his fifties. “He was wearing camouflaged long pants, an olive drab jacket over a solid green t‑shirt, grey and brown Starter brand sneakers and grey hospital style socks.” Cops have a hunch who the man is, but don’t know yet for sure.
Although detectives don’t know yet “when, where or how he ended up in the water,” they’re “treating this as a potential crime.” Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at (203) 946‑6304.
