Crime & Safety
Toms River PD Heading Probe Into Body Discovery at Community Medical
The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office has been removed as lead investigative agency because of a possible conflict of interest with the victim, according to NJ101.5
Toms River Police will now lead the investigation into the discovery of a body at Community Medical Center on Friday.
The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office has been removed as lead investigative agency because of a possible conflict of interest with the victim, according to NJ101.5.
The body of a 28-year-old Point Pleasant Beach man was found in a car parked outside Community Medical Center Thursday night.
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William Thomson 3rd, 28, likely died of a drug overdose, but toxicology reports are pending, police said.
Township police were called by hospital security officers to the parking garage at about 11 p.m. after they noticed a man who they said was passed out in a vehicle, Chief Michael Mastronardy said.
They found the man's body in the back seat of the vehicle, said Mastronardy. Foul play is not suspected to have played a role in the man's death, he added.
Detective Robert O'Neill is investigating the death along with the Ocean County Sheriff’s department, Ocean County Prosecutors Office and the Medical Examiners Office.
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