A veteran police officer was found dead this morning at a cemetery in Rocky Hill.
Sources with ties to law enforcement said that the officer had been working overnight and did not respond to radio calls. The police department was initially unaware of his location, but he was later found dead at the Center Cemetery.
News spread quickly within the law enforcement community, and a large number of police officers responded to the scene this morning.
Lt. J. Paul Vance, a spokesman for the state police, said on a live television interview on Fox CT that the state police had been asked to assist in the case.
"Right now, it's an untimely death,'' Vance said in the Fox studios in Hartford.