Vancouver Police have ruled out foul play after the discovery of a body on the rocky shore of northeast False Creek last Wednesday morning.
“Preliminary evidence indicates the death of a 26-year-old man is not the result of a crime,” public information officer Const. Tania Visintin said Friday. “BC Coroners Service will continue to investigate.”
A photograph shot by an area resident from a nearby balcony showed investigators erected a white crime scene tent over the body, in an area between Science World and the Concord Pacific sales centre. The location was below the seawall, near the top of the tide line. Police received a call at 5:18 a.m.
Visintin would not comment on the cause of death, including whether the man had suffered an overdose.
“That is something the coroner will have to speak to as the cause of death is their investigation at this point,” she said.
Ryan Panton, communications manager for the BC Coroners Service, had no additional information.
“We’re early in the process of trying to determine all of the facts,” Panton said.
The bodies of two men who went missing after visiting downtown nightclubs were found recently in False Creek, less than three weeks apart.
Langley’s Irshaad Iqbal, 36, went missing April 29 after attending the Harbour Event Centre. His body was found May 18 near the Plaza of Nations. On June 5, a boater near Granville Island found the body of Suleiman Khawar, 23, who went missing after visiting the Mansion Club in the Paradox Hotel, formerly known as the Trump International.
