CORNWALL, Ontario – Cornwall police confirm that on Saturday, Jan. 13 they found a 19-year-old man in the construction site across from St. Lawrence College.
Police responded to the call at 8:20 a.m. on Saturday, and said that the man had been in the site since Friday night. Friday, Jan. 12 saw a flash freeze in Cornwall overnight as well as over 20 cm of snowfall.
“He was 19-years-old, from Cornwall and was transported by police to the Cornwall Hospital,” said Cst. Dan Cloutier of the Cornwall Community Police Service, who explained that when found by police, the man was suffering from hypothermia. “He was transferred to Ottawa.”
Police are still investigating how the man got into the construction site on Montreal Rd., which is surrounded by a high wooden fence.
Seaway News spoke with Gary Soules of Durbacon, the construction company developing the site, who said that he had been informed of the incident.
“They just told me someone got inside the site, but I don’t know how he got in,” said Soules.
Soules said that he had been informed of the incident by the City of Cornwall and that he was told that some parts of the site and the fence were damaged, but did not know if that was done by the man or by emergency responders who tried to extract him from the construction zone.
The site located on the corner of Montreal Rd. and Belmont St. next to Taverne La Maison used to be the home of a gas station, but Soules is endeavouring to construct a new apartment building.
