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Discovery of body in Guelph not considered suspicious: police

Guelph Police were sent to a home on Hayes Avenue, which is near Stevenson Street and York Road, for a "check wellbeing" call just before midnight on Wednesday. Matt Carty / Global News

Guelph police say the discovery of a man’s body in the city’s Two Rivers neighbourhood on Wednesday night is not considered suspicious.

Officers made the discovery at around 11:20 p.m. in a house on Hayes Avenue after a neighbour called police concerned about the residents’ well-being.

Const. Kyle Grant couldn’t elaborate on why the neighbour called the police but said “check well-being” calls are quite common.

“[They] can range from a dropped 911 call to someone asking police to check on a friend or a relative they haven’t heard from in quite some,” he said. “There’s a whole wide variety of scenarios where police are sent to check to see if someone is OK.”
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Police and firefighters spent the day on Thursday at the house to process the scene.

“Whenever someone is located deceased, there is always going to be a police investigation in order to figure out what happened and to bring the case to a resolution,” he said.

Police said there was never a concern from public safety during the investigation.

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