Coroner’s office says body found in load of demolition debris in Lordstown was a suicide

Staff report

WARREN

The Trumbull County coroner’s office has ruled that the man who was found dead in a roll off garbage container about to be dumped at the Lafarge demolition debris landfill in Lordstown on Friday died of a suicide.

The man’s body was found by the driver who brought a load of demolition debris from a construction site in Ravenna to Lafarge. Capt. David Rarrick of the Ravenna Police Department said Friday his department believed it might know who the man was but was waiting for an identification from the coroner.

Calls to the Lordstown and Ravenna police departments Monday afternoon seeking additional information on how and where the man got into the container and the town where he was from were not returned.

The Record Courier newspaper of Ravenna reported Friday that Ravenna police indicated the deceased man was fully clothed and did not work at the location where the body was found.

The man has been described as white and between 30 and 40 years old.

Rarrick on Friday declined to identify the worksite from which the roll-off truck came.

The body was taken from the landfill to the Trumbull County morgue after police conducted an investigation Friday.

Lordstown Detective Chris Bordonaro said Friday the death was being treated as a potential homicide. The truck driver reported what he found about 9:30 a.m. Friday.

Rarrick said the Trumbull County Homicide Task Force is the lead investigator in the case.

Lafarge closed the facility when the discovery was made so the investigation could be carried out, a Lafarge spokesman said. It did not reopen the rest of the day Friday but intended to reopen Monday, the spokesman said.

The facility accepts and processes construction demolition debris.