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Police were called to reports of an unresponsive man near the Grosvenor Street entrance to Gibbons Park just before 7am on Sunday. Police and ambulances arrived at the scene and began life-saving measures.
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The unidentified man was pronounced dead a short time later, police said in a news release Sunday afternoon. The death is being treated as suspicious, a police spokesman said in an email Sunday. Investigators are unable to say whether the death is a homicide because an autopsy has not yet been performed. Investigators cordoned off a large section of the parking lot and the adjacent park with police tape. The path alongside the River Thames remained open for cyclists and pedestrians. The department’s forensic identification van, search and rescue vehicle and six cruisers remained at the scene.
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Six officers could be seen combing the parking lot for evidence, picking up leaves as they walked a line marked with yellow flags and appeared to be paying particular attention to the southeast corner of the park’s entrance. Six London police officers search for evidence at the Grosvenor Street entrance to Gibbons Park on Sunday, November 6, 2022. An unidentified man was found unresponsive in the area on Sunday morning and later pronounced dead. (Jennifer Bieman/The London Free Press) A neighbor with a house at the end of Grosvenor Street, right next to the Gibbons car park, said he was woken up by a heavy police presence outside. “I heard muffled voices throughout the night,” Doug Gerber said, adding that it wasn’t unusual to hear people in the park on weekend nights, but the voices didn’t sound like the usual “whooping and hollering” from the bar crowd. late at night. Gerber said he didn’t hear any gunshots or other commotion. The man’s name and age have not been released by London police. The investigation has been reassigned to the department’s major crime unit, police said. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the London Police Department at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
