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Update: Body found near river identified

Update: Body found near river identified | iNFOnews.ca
RCMP say a body was found under a tarp at a makeshift camp by the river near the Schubert Drive bike path. Police say it appears the 56-year-old man died of natural causes. Google Street View

KAMLOOPS – Foul play has been ruled out in the sudden death of a man whose body was found early Saturday morning on the Shubert Drive bike trail.

Glenn William Stecyk, 56, of no fixed address was found by a passerby at 12:30 a.m. The body was under a tarp at a makeshift camp near Fort Avenue by the Thompson River. Stecyk was unresponsive and could not be resuscitated.

The B.C. Coroners Service and RCMP are still investigating Stecyk's death.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Glynn Brothen at gbrothen@infotelnews.ca or call 250-319-7494. To contact the editor, email mjones@infotelnews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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Howard Alexander

Assistant Editor Howard Alexander comes to iNFOnews.ca from the broadcasting side of the media business.

Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.

He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.

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