Officials identify man found in wooded area in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood
Pittsburgh police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found Wednesday morning wrapped in a tarp and left in a wooded area.
Police were called to the 400 block of Ardary Street in the city’s Garfield neighborhood, where they found a Black man whose body had been wrapped in a tarp.
Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the deceased as Jerry David Gardner, 30, of Homestead.
The death is being investigated as a homicide, police said.
Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.
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