Police investigate suspicious death in Sultan

Published 1:12 pm Friday, June 27, 2008

SULTAN — Sheriff’s detectives said they are investigating a suspicious death of a Sultan man whose body was found early Thursday.

The man, 49, lived in the 12800 block of 311 Avenue SE, sheriff’s spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said.

The man was found by a woman who came home around 6 a.m., Hover said. The woman shares the home with the man and her elderly mother. The man was not related to the two women.

No one else in the home was injured.

Sultan Police asked sheriff’s detectives to investigate the death. No details about the man’s injuries or the circumstances of his death have been released.

Sheriff’s detectives interviewed people Thursday, including neighbors, to learn more about the man. The worked well into the night Thursday, Hover said.

The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office was called to the scene to help determine the cause of the man’s death. The autopsy results are expected later today.