NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Authorities in New Bedford have opened a homicide investigation into the stabbing death of a homeless man.
The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office says the victim, identified as 41-year-old Robert Jones III, was found Thursday evening by two other homeless men who alerted police.
Investigators say Jones was living in a heavily wooded homeless encampment. The state medical examiner is conducting an autopsy.
Further details were not immediately available Friday.
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