NIAGARA COUNTY, N.Y. — An investigation has been launched after a man's body was found Thursday in a Niagara County field.
Town of Niagara Police were called around 4:22 p.m. Thursday to the 3000 block of Rhode Island Avenue, near Hyde Park Road and Lockport Boulevard. That's where someone reported an unresponsive man lying in a field.
Officers said the man, believed to be in his 50s, was dead at the scene. The man's name is being withheld by police, who are in the process of notifying family members.
The Niagara County Sheriff's Office criminal investigation unit and Niagara Active Hose Fire Co. assisted at the scene.
The investigation is ongoing.
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