Police said they are investigating a suspicious death in a Rutland apartment and are looking to talk with a tenant who had been living there.
Rutland City Police said in a press release that the investigation into the death in the upstairs apartment at 76 Baxter St. began at about 4:45 a.m. Sunday.
Police Chief Brian Kilcullen said late Monday afternoon that he was waiting for information about the cause and manner of death, as well as confirmation of the person’s identity from the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington, where the body was taken for an autopsy.
In a press release Monday morning, police said that “as a result of our ongoing investigation, we are looking to check the welfare of and speak with Bradley Saldi.”
Kilcullen later said Saldi was a tenant of the apartment where the dead body was located Sunday, but “he was not on the scene. He’s a person of interest, in that he is someone we want to speak with for that reason, because he’s the tenant.”
The police chief said a person police encountered in a “totally unrelated” incident alerted authorities to the body in the apartment.
“During the encounter with this individual, it was communicated to police that there was a deceased individual inside the residence,” Kilcullen said, declining to provide additional details about that person or the nature of the police encounter.
Nor would Kilcullen provide specifics on why police believed the death to be suspicious, stating only, “just the condition of the deceased.”
The police chief said he wasn’t sure how long the body had been in the apartment. “We responded as soon as we became aware,” he said.
Kilcullen said people had complained in the past about drug activity at the apartment building. “It’s an address we’re aware of,” he said. “We’re in the process of investigating those complaints.”
