{"id":3661,"date":"2010-12-07T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2010-12-07T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T20:46:43","slug":"man-found-dead-in-tent-off-kresky-in-chehalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3661","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in tent off Kresky in Chehalis"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

This news story was updated at 11:17 a.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

A homeless man was found dead inside a tent on the hillside off Kresky in Chehalis yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Police say there were no obvious signs of trauma or a struggle but are investigating.<\/p>\n

Chehalis Police Chief Glenn Schaffer in a news release described him as in his mid-60s and a client of the state Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n

Community corrections officers found him dead when they went to check on him after he missed an appointment earlier in the day, according to Shaffer.<\/p>\n

The fire department and police were called about 4:30 p.m. to the camp, in the trees about 150 yards east of Kresky along the 2200 block near the Lewis County Mall.<\/p>\n

His identity has not been released.<\/p>\n

Chehalis detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said the individual is not someone he is familiar with. He probably hadn’t been dead more than a day or so, McNamara said.<\/p>\n

The man had been pretty routine about showing up at DOC’s Chehalis community corrections office, said Scott Albert, the supervisor there. The office is in the Lewis County Mall.<\/p>\n

“I would see him here regularly Monday around 8 or 9 a.m.,” Albert said this morning.<\/p>\n

The deceased, who Albert said was 67 years old, has been under their supervision for two years after getting out of prison. He was incarcerated in July 1999 and was a level one registered sex offender, Albert said.<\/p>\n

It’s not unheard of for some of their clients to be homeless or live in tents, according Albert.<\/p>\n

“He was homeless, he didn’t have any resources,” Albert said. “A lot of people get labeled as a sex offender and nobody wants to house them,” he said.<\/p>\n

The man had been in prison for first-degree rape of a child, he said.<\/p>\n

It appears he was compliant with the conditions imposed on him and had about a year more of being under their supervision, Albert said.<\/p>\n

One lane of Kresky was shut down until about 9:30 p.m. as police conducted their investigation.<\/p>\n

The cause of death is yet to be determined but at this point in the investigation appears to be related to natural causes, according to police.<\/p>\n

Both the fire department and Albert indicated it initially didn’t appear as a natural death, for reasons they didn’t specify. McNamara said there was a little blood around his nose and mouth.<\/p>\n

Police will treat it as suspicious until they determine otherwise, according to McNamara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter This news story was updated at 11:17 a.m. A homeless man was found dead inside a tent on the hillside off Kresky in Chehalis yesterday afternoon. Police say there were no obvious signs of trauma or a struggle but are investigating. Chehalis Police Chief Glenn Schaffer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}