A man at the scene told police the victim “froze to death.”Ī woman who had been staying in the tent with the victim said he would often go out on cold nights to start a generator to keep them warm, and added that he’d smoked methamphetamine the night before. 12, when officers found a man dead “outside of his tent,” which was “on the railroad tracks” near 1000 S. Most days, temperatures didn’t rise above freezing. Salt Lake City Police Department documents obtained through a public records request paint a grim picture of that December week, when National Weather Service records show the city received more than a foot of snow and the average low temperature barely surpassed 20 degrees, with the average high just over 32. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City police conduct an abatement on Rio Grande Street shortly after the spate of deaths in December.
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