The man found dead on the shoreline at Ocean Beach Park in New London early Friday morning has been identified as Wei Wei, 33, of Flushing, New York.
At 5:43 a.m. on Friday, police received a report that a man’s body had been found and officers located him near the water.
His name was released on Monday morning.
The cause of the man’s death is not known. The office of the chief medical examiner will conduct further tests to determine what Wei died of.
Anyone with information about Wei is asked to call the New London Police Detective Division at (860)447-1481 or submit an anonymous tip at the New London Police Department's Tip411 text-a-tip line.
