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A homeless man was found dead Friday morning in a wooded area in Chillum and paramedics believe cold weather contributed to his death.
Someone called the paramedics on a cell phone at about 8 a.m. The paramedics found the 40-year-old man in the 6300 block of Ager Road, where he had likely been dead for several hours, said Mark Brady, a Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department spokesman. The man apparently had nothing on him, like blankets or a sleeping bag, to protect him from the night's freezing temperatures.
The state medical examiner's office in Baltimore will release the official cause of death after it completes an autopsy, Brady said.
The man was sleeping in an ad-hoc wooded camp where many day-workers sleep, Brady said. Emergency personnel planned to go back to the scene Friday night when the workers returned to advise them of any nearby emergency shelter.
To find emergency shelter in Prince George's County, call the Homeless Hotline at 1-888-731-0999.
E-mail Elahe Izadi at eizadi@gazette.net.