Body discovered at Havre’s Woods likely died by suicide, police said

- Wendy DiAlesandro

A woman walking in Ravenna’s Havre’s Woods Park on Thursday morning came upon a body and a gun by the side of the trail and called police.

Ravenna police, assisted by the county coroner and Bureau of Criminal Investigations, identified the victim as a 72-year-old Ravenna man. Investigators are treating the matter as a suicide, Ravenna Police Captain Jake Smallfield said.

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