The body of the man, who has not yet been named, was discovered frozen in a small landscaping pond at his home in Vermilion, a city in Erie and Lorain counties.
He was found after a neighbor asked the police to carry out a welfare check at the property on Tuesday.Law enforcement believe the man may have accidentally slipped because of the freezing weather, but the Lorain County Coroner's Office has not yet provided an official cause of death.
Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Larry Rothman said emergency personnel were dispatched to the 400 block of Knapp Road, where they found Richard Theodore Kokochak lying in a driveway. "He was in a position where passers-by would have been unable to really see him unless they were really looking for him," said Rothman.in his Michigan home in sub-zero temperatures after the power was cut off to his home.
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