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Police investigating after man found dead in parked truck in Montreal alleyway

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Montreal police are still working to identify a man in his thirties who was found dead in a truck parked in an alley east of downtown Saturday morning.

Police say the man’s body bore signs of violence and they are investigating his death as suspicious.

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Department spokesperson Véronique Dubuc says this morning authorities found the man after responding to a 7:50 a.m. 911 call about a non-responsive individual in the alley in the city’s Centre-Sud neighbourhood.

Dubuc says the man was dead when police arrived and officers did not attempt resuscitation.

The Montreal police major crimes unit is handling the case.

Police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant says investigators were still at the location where the man was found trying to piece together what happened.

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