UPDATE Police and coroner investigate sudden death in downtown Vernon

UPDATE 11: 30 a.m.

RCMP and the B.C. Coroner’s Service are investigating what is being called a sudden death in downtown Vernon.

Emergency personnel were called to a site on 30th Avenue around 9:15 a.m. Wednesday (Sept 16).

“Vernon North Okanagan frontline officers responded to a sudden death in the 3300-block of 30th Avenue,” said Const. Chris Terleski, media relations officer. “No criminality is suspected and the B.C. Coroners Service is conducting an independent and concurrent fact-finding investigation to determine how, where, when and by what means they came to their unexpected death.  Neither agency has additional information to release at this time.”