SYRACUSE N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Authorities have released the name of a man who died of an apparently accidental electrocution in the Southside last week.
Syracuse Police Department spokesperson Kieran Coffey said in a May 4 statement that first responders found the body of a 43-year-old man, now identified as Daniel Ignacio, after getting dispatched on Thursday, April 30, to the 200 block of Doctor Martin Luther King West for a report of a possible electrocution.
Investigators determined Ignacio, of Syracuse, accidentally hit power lines while painting a home with a boom lift, Coffey previously said, adding that the incident does not appear to be criminal in nature.
A Syracuse Fire Department spokesperson previously told NewsChannel 9 | LocalSYR.com that when crews arrived, a person was found in the basket of a hydraulic lift about 20 feet off the ground. Once National Grid secured the power to the area, firefighters lowered the hydraulic lift to the ground and confirmed the man was dead…