The state chief medical examiner’s office has ruled the death of a New Haven man a homicide by strangulation.
Police found the body of the man, 62-year-old Miguel Rivera of New Haven, face down in a stream by Eastern and Hemingway streets last Friday at 7:10 a.m., according to a release issued Tuesday afternoon by police spokesperson Officer Christian Bruckhart.
He asked anyone with information about the killing to contact detectives at 203 – 946-6304 or to leave an anonymous message at 866 – 888-TIPS (8477).