Medical examiner on the scene in December |
Maplewood Police and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office have refused to reveal the cause of death since Lawrence Mancuso, 61, was found in the brook on the morning of Dec. 11, 2015, other than to say it was not suspicious.
Since he was found in the brook, some had speculated it was a suicide or other such unclear cause. But Mancuso’s sister, Mari Acken, told Maplewoodian.com that the Essex County Medical Examiner’s Office had told her other brother it was an accidental death apparently caused by head trauma.
“That
is what the coroner had said, they suspect that is probably what happened, that
he slipped and fell and hit his head,” She said Monday “The coroner had verified
it, that it was not suspicious, that nobody had done anything to him, that it
was an unfortunate accident. It was not a suicide.”
A former South
Orange resident who lived most recently in Nutley, Mancuso was known as a member
of Our Lady of Sorrows Church and the South Orange Elks Club. But Acken said
she had last spoken to him before Thanksgiving and said he was not always in
touch with the family.
“It was unusual
that they found him there,” she said. “I knew we couldn’t get a hold of him,
the next thing we heard, they had tracked down my brother. They had to bring
him down to The Essex County Coroner and as far as they were concerned it was
an accident and that he had hit his head.
“My brother was
kind of elusive, we stayed in contact,” she added. “I had left him a message on
his phone before Thanksgiving and had not heard from him, but not to say anything
was wrong.”
Police did not
respond to requests for comment on Acken’s statement about the cause of death
or why it was not revealed given that the body was found in a public park and,
apparently, his death was not caused by anything unusual.
One could argue
that there is a safety issue if he fell because of om safety hazard in the park.
It is also
contrary to a previous police decision back in 2012 when the department issued
a press release on a suicide in a private home on Baker street, which included
the cause of death and the victim’s name. We withheld the victim’s name in our
report, but it was made public.
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