Overview
- A person walking near 1000C Rodney French Blvd. reported the body shortly before 11 a.m., prompting the response.
- Responding officers pulled a fully clothed man from the water at the park entrance, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
- The Bristol District Attorney’s Office identified the victim as 43-year-old Joel Barboza of New Bedford.
- Officials say the death is not deemed suspicious based on the absence of observable trauma.
- Massachusetts State Police detectives are investigating with New Bedford Police as the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determines cause and manner.