Police investigating suspicious death by CT hiking trail

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Photo credit Joel Angel Juarez/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK

WATERTOWN, Conn. (1010 WINS) -- Police are investigating the death of a man in his 30s who was found in a parking area for a Watertown hiking trail on Saturday.

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The death is being investigated as suspicious, according to police, but officers are not yet ready to make a determination on exactly how  he died.

Passing motorists reported an unresponsive man laying in the dirt parking area of the Echo Lake conservation trail just before 8 a.m., authorities said.

When police arrived, the man was dead.

The Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death.

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