Crime & Safety

Homicide Unit In Scotch Plains After Death Discovered: UCPO

Prosecutors were investigating the death.

Prosecutors were investigating the death.
Prosecutors were investigating the death. (Patch photo)

Prosecutors were investigating a death in New Jersey on Tuesday.

The Union County Homicide Task Force responded to the 500 block of Park Avenue in Scotch Plains Tuesday afternoon regarding a death.

The discovery happened at 11 a.m when the Scotch Plains Police Department say they found a deceased man in an apartment on the 500 block of Park Avenue

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The immediate cause of death was not known. The medical examiner was seen removing a body from the building, according to ABC7 and NBC4 New York.

Investigators also searched through a white BMW in the area before hooking it to a tow truck, according to ABC7.

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WNBC said the man was in his 50s.

More information will be reported as it becomes available.

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