Aurora police trying to ID remains found near I-225 overpass

Investigators are attempting to establish skeletal stays discovered this month in northern Aurora below an Interstate 225 overpass, police stated.

Aurora police discovered the physique below an overpass crossing Toll Gate Creek close to Potomac Avenue and Potomac Circle on April 1, in keeping with a information launch.

Officers first realized in regards to the physique once they responded to a combat close to I-225 and Sixth Avenue, in keeping with the discharge. The individuals concerned within the combat instructed officers there have been human stays below a close-by overpass north of the intersection.

The stays belong to an unidentified Black man in his 30s who was about 5-foot-5 and about 140 kilos, in keeping with the Arapahoe County coroner’s workplace.

The person had brief, curly black hair and was sporting a brown leather-based jacket, a fluorescent inexperienced sweatshirt, a gray-and-black hooded shirt, black sweatpants, camouflage shorts and light-weight brown boots.

Police stated the stays might belong to a person named Ben who frequented the East Colfax Avenue and I-225 corridors earlier than his demise. Aurora murder detectives and the coroner’s workplace haven’t been in a position to positively ID the person, and no ID was discovered with the physique.

It’s not clear how the person died.

Anybody with any data is requested to name the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Workplace at 720-874-3625 or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.