Concord Police are investigating the deaths of two men found outside two days apart.
Concord Police have said the two incidents are unrelated and that public faces no apparent danger, but offered little other related information. No arrests have been announced.
On Monday around 12:25 p.m., police were called to an area under the Water Street bridge near South Main Street and located the body of Blake Erickson, 47, inside a homeless encampment.
On Tuesday around 2 p.m., the police responded to a wooded area off Horseshoe Pond Lane for another report of an unattended death. The body of a man was found near the railroad tracks. No information about his identity, age or place of residence has been released.
The Attorney General’s Homicide Unit is called in to investigate suspicious deaths: a spokesman for the department said Thursday that they are not involved.
Both incidents are being actively investigated, according to local police. A manner of death has not been released in either case.
Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact the Concord Police Department at (603) 225-8600.
The area where Erickson was found, under the Water Street bridge, had previously been the site of a larger encampment. It was cleared by the city along with nearby Healy Park over the summer.
Earlier this year, police located another man, Scott Fife, who had passed away in a tent off Fort Eddy Road. His death was not determined to be suspicious.
The incidents carry echoes of last spring, when multiple people were found deceased in the central part of the city within a short time span.
In October, Concord police investigated the shooting death of a 37-year-old woman in a wooded area off Manchester Street, near the Soucook River and the New Hampshire Liquor Outlet, close to the Pembroke town line. The site was near what appeared to be a homeless encampment.
No arrests were made in that case.