Body found in Orillia Post-mortem will take place
By SARA ROSS – QMI Agency
Updated 12 hours ago
Police are investigating the death of a 45-year-old man whose body was discovered Wednesday morning lying in the snow behind a home near Couchiching Beach Park.
Collin Fogarty was heading downtown at 11 a.m. when he noticed a man lying near the driveway of his 100 Laclie St. home.
“His eyes were open. I noticed him staring at me and I called to him. He didn’t say anything,” Fogarty said. “That’s when I noticed it was a dead body.”
Fogarty called 911 and an ambulance arrived less than a minute later and confirmed the man was dead.
“Death is one thing, but to die alone in the snow at night, that’s completely different. It struck me as a real bad way to go.”
Though Orillia OPP aren’t releasing whether there was foul play involved, Fogarty didn’t see any signs.
“I never saw any blood or anything like that.”
Aaron Jacques, who lives nearby, says the deceased knocked on his windows around 11 p.m. on Tuesday night.
“He was just snooping around my house, looking in my windows, trying to get in. He was looking for a place to crash, I guess.”
Jacques says the man seemed “really intoxicated” and his mumbled speech was difficult to understand.
He did not call the police.
“It didn’t seem like I had to because he wasn’t making a scene or nothing like that,” Jacques said.
Fogarty didn’t hear any commotion Tuesday night, but he lives in an apartment within a home with three doorways before reaching his.
“If someone knocked on the outside door, we would never ever hear him,” Fogarty said.
Orillia OPP remained on scene Wednesday evening. The area behind 100 Laclie St. and a section behind R.Y. Architect, which is beside Fogarty’s home, are taped off.
The driveway near where the man was found enters onto an unnamed service road and loops behind Laclie Street to Tecumseth Street.
“They are going to cover all of the area there and just make sure they don’t miss anything,” said OPP Special Const. Wanda Peirce. “If there is anything else that might give them some idea as to what happened.”
The investigation is ongoing and police are not releasing the identity of the man, or the details of the death at this time.
“It’s under investigation so we can’t even comment on that right now,” Peirce said.
A post-mortem will be conducted in Toronto at an undetermined date.
“Once we have results from that, we will know the cause of death.”
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