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Body found under Longfellow Bridge
By adamg on Mon, 12/09/2013 - 12:45pm
A construction worker on the Longfellow Bridge project found the body of a man in rafters under the bridge's Boston side this morning, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The man’s remains were discovered in the rafters beneath the bridge in an area known to police as a spot where homeless people sometimes sleep. The deceased has been tentatively identified as a 43-year-old man whose last known address was a Boston homeless shelter. There were no outward signs of trauma or foul play, but the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause and manner of his death. Attempts to locate and notify the man’s family are under way.
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In the rafters of the Longfellow?
My guess would be a homeless man would be perched up there and perhaps the elements got him. Or drugs or anything else, but I'd put my money on the former.
Yes.
Under the bridge, but above the roadway in some lagging built for access.
Horrible news.
Very Sad
I'd bet it was someone who was living up there as well. People have been living in that structure wherever they can for many years - there have been fires when people were trying to keep warm.
How do you know what he was
How do you know what he was on or what was wrong with him? There is an autopsy being done. The reason I know that...he is my brother. So keep your thoughtless opinions to yourself, people are grieving
Opinion? What?
I made a speculation. How is that an opinion? I'm sorry for your loss, but you're coming off pretty unreasonable here. I never said he was on anything, I said it was possible -- and I said it was more likely the elements.
I'm assuming the tenting was
I'm assuming the tenting was set up for a construction project, or is it in relation to the discovery of the body?
Very tragic and sad.
Project-Related
Hyde_Parker, the tenting was related to the painting operation currently underway on the bridge.
Given that re-construction
of the bridge has barely begun, I suspect the tenting is actually for containment as the contractor strips existing paint off the beams and girders. Nevertheless, it is still very tragic (and suddenly, I can't seem to get Christine Lavin's song Somebody's Baby out of my head).
thank you for that, he was
thank you for that, he was someones son. very kind and that song just broke me down.