Aurora police trying to ID skeletal remains found near I-225
Officers first learned about the body when they responded to a fight near I-225 and Sixth Avenue, Aurora police said.
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Investigators are trying to identify skeletal remains found in northern Aurora under an Interstate 225 overpass earlier this month, police said.
Police found the body under an overpass crossing Toll Gate Creek near Potomac Street and Potomac Circle on April 1, according to a news release from the Aurora Police Department.
Officers first learned about the body when they responded to a fight near I-225 and Sixth Avenue, according to the release. The people involved in the fight told officers there were human remains under a nearby overpass north of the intersection.
The remains belong to an unidentified Black man in his 30s who was about 5 feet and 5 inches tall and weighed about 140 pounds, according to the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.
The man had short, curly black hair and was wearing a brown leather jacket, a fluorescent green sweatshirt, a gray-and-black hooded shirt, black sweatpants, camouflage shorts and light brown boots.
Police said the remains may belong to a man named Ben who frequented the East Colfax Avenue and I-225 corridors before his death. Aurora homicide detectives and the coroner’s office have not been able to positively ID the man, and no ID was found with the body.
It’s not clear how the man died.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office at 720-874-3625 or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.
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