State officials have identified the hiker who fell to his death at West Rock Ridge State Park in New Haven on Sunday night as Robert Anastasio, 26, of the Hamden area.
Officials from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said they identified him through fingerprints and State Police records.
Authorities are still investigating what caused a hiker to fall to his death at West Rock Ridge State Park and it took them several hours to recover the body after returning to the site in the daylight hours.
Someone who saw Anastasio fall from a cliff called 911 around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday and crews from the New Haven police and fire departments responded, along with crews from the state DEEP.
Anastasio's body was found at the bottom of the cliff and the New Haven Fire Department recovered it on Monday.
