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Leelanau County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Electrocution

The Leelanau County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an electrocution that occurred Sunday evening.

Suttons Bay/Bingham County EMS responded to a report of a man down and unresponsive at the 400 block of North Lincoln Street. It was determined that the victim, a 63-year-old Traverse City man, had been working on an art/wood burning project when something went wrong and he was electrocuted.

Efforts to resuscitate the man were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The incident remains under investigation pending results of an autopsy.

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