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

Investigators try to establish skeletal stays discovered this month in northern Aurora beneath an Interstate 225 overpass, police stated.

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

Officers first realized in regards to the physique after they responded to a battle close to I-225 and Sixth Avenue, in accordance with the discharge. The folks concerned within the battle informed officers there have been human stays beneath 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 accordance with the Arapahoe County coroner’s workplace.

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

Police stated the stays could belong to a person named Ben who frequented the East Colfax Avenue and I-225 corridors earlier than his dying. 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.