UC Berkeley police officer Diana Ruiz is seen near a fence at People's Park in Berkeley, Calif., on Feb. 2, 2021. A man found dead in the park on Nov. 4 was identified as Tyler Cary, a former UC Davis Ph.D. student, the Alameda County coroner’s office said.A man found dead at People’s Park in Berkeley on the afternoon of Nov. 4 was identified as 31-year-old Tyler Cary, a former UC Davis Ph.D. student, the Alameda County coroner’s office said.
Social workers patrolling the park noticed Cary lying in a ripped tent at about 2 p.m. and called the Berkeley Fire Department, said Sgt. Patrick O’Donnell with the Berkeley Police Department. Firefighters declared Cary dead at the scene, police“We went around the park and asked everyone what they saw,” O’Donnell said. “Some said the last time they saw him alive was midnight.”
The cause of death has yet to be confirmed, but O’Donnell said foul play is not suspected. “There were some things that pointed to a drug overdose,” he said. Cary was born in New Jersey and grew up in Marlboro, New York, a small town about 80 miles outside New York City, according to an obituary posted on
. He graduated from Marlboro High School in 2009 and earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the obituary said.
RIP
Sad.