By AVA TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

POLICE are investigating an apparent suicide after a man was discovered hanging by a rope in his Coral Harbour apartment.

News of 24-year-old Nathaniel Gibbs’ death shocked area residents, who said that the young man had been living in the apartment off Adelaide Road for less than two months.

At the scene yesterday, Superintendent Stephen Dean said: “The responding officers, upon arrival at the scene, they met the lifeless body of a male hanging from a piece of rope on a treadmill.

“At this point in time,” he said, “we are treating this as a suicide investigation. We are still in the preliminary stages, and still appealing to members of the public who might have some information to please contact us.”

Police have not yet released an official identification; however, several persons at the compound of JB Liquor Store and Apartments identified the victim.

According to an area resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Mr Gibbs lived alone and frequented the store. He was said to have had a polite and respectable demeanour, but had become noticeably withdrawn in recent weeks.

Police investigations are continuing.