Video: Baldwyn Police Investigating After Elderly Man Is Found Dead

BALDWYN, Miss. (WCBI) – Police are investigating the circumstances leading up to the death of an elderly man late Monday evening, October 23.

Area neighbors tell WCBI, 70 year-old Henry Adams was found dead with what appeared to be wounds from an alleged homicide.

Neighbors say he sold cars from his home on Adams Drive.

Though the incident happened in the Baldwyn city limits, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is the lead agency in the case.

The man lived at the home alone. His was wallet was still nearby.

Lee County Coroner Carolyn Green says the incident is being handled as an ongoing death investigation and Adam’s body is being sent to Pearl for an autopsy.