No Foul Play in Death Near National Mall, Police Say

Photo by Jonathan LC

This post has been updated.

Police are investigating after a man's body was found dead Sunday morning just off the National Mall near the bank of the Potomac River.

The deceased, whom a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman described as an adult white male, was found shot about 8 a.m. in the 2300 block of Ohio Drive SW, not far from the Lincoln Memorial. The deceased, who has not yet been identified, was found by employees of the National Park Service.

Although the investigation is still ongoing, there are no indicators of foul play and the death appears to be a suicide, the spokesman said.

Police tape surrounded the immediate area for several hours Sunday morning, though tourists headed toward the Lincoln Memorial were not impeded, and roads near the site were open to traffic by noon, the Post reported.

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By Benjamin R. Freed in News on February 12, 2012 12:57 PM 0 Comments

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elizqueenmama

Surprisingly, the WaPo article is fairly thorough. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Iceman_v_1

"The deceased, who has not yet been identified, was by employees of the National Park Service."
Well, that's almost a sentence...

Shiba Fussa

Your guess is as good as mine but I think he mays has meants to say "was employed"

Guest

Or "was discovered by"

Fugitive Vizsla

You're getting warmer, keep trying, writers.

Does it have a noun? - Check.
Does it begin with a capital letter? - Check.
Does it end with a punctuation mark? - Check.
Does it have a verb? - Kind of. We can round up.
Does it make sense? - ...Well, you know, 4 out of 5 isn't bad.

Guest

I can recognize the photograph if that helps.

karonf

Wouldn't being shot be a good indicator of foul play? Or is the implication that this was a suicide?

Fugitive Vizsla

I am wondering the same thing, "foul play" implies non-natural cause, the headline is a bit misleading. The sentence has quite a lot of info and is structured oddly, perhaps "shot" is a typo? The word "at" is more natural, but I have no idea how one uses "shot" instead of "at." English aside, this is sad Sunday news.