UPDATED: Police investigating unattended death in downtown Jamestown
The Jamestown Police Department responded to a report of a man who appeared to be deceased laying at the bottom of a stairwell shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 20, at an entrance of an apartment building in the 200 block of First Avenue South.
Upon arrival, Blinsky said the Jamestown Police Department determined that the man had been deceased for several hours. He said the man's death did not appear to be suspicious.
Blinsky said the man did not have any form of identification on him.
The Jamestown Police Department identified the man later on Tuesday and made contact with family, according to its Facebook page.
The Jamestown Police Department won't be releasing the man's name or any additional information, its Facebook post says.
The man was described as a Caucasian or Native American, 25 to 40 years old, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing between 165 to 185 pounds. The man has a scruffy black beard with a full goatee and black hair and has several distinguishable tattoos on his left arm, left abdomen, left chest and left shoulder. He was wearing multi-colored Converse All-Star shoes.
If anyone has any other information on the incident, contact the Stutsman County Communications Center at 252-1000 and ask to speak with Sgt. Jason Prochnow with the Jamestown Police Department.
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