Overview
- A 911 call alerted officers to an unresponsive person on a remote trail and first responders hiked about 1.5 miles into Whitney Woods to reach an injured man in his early 70s who was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Officials closed a section of the woods for roughly three and a half hours while they processed the area and conducted an on-scene examination.
- Police and state medical examiner personnel used off-road UTVs to move officers, equipment, and later to assist in removing the man from the trail.
- The man’s name and an official cause of death have not been released while investigators notify next of kin and continue the inquiry.
- Whitney and Thayer Woods include many miles of remote trails that can slow emergency access, so investigators say temporary closures and extended on-scene work are standard in such cases.