Michael Northcote was killed in his Swan Lake home, a rural Sullivan  County hamlet. Northcote’s identity was told to the Times Herald Record by a neighbor.

Sullivan County police responded to a 911 call to a home at 177 Cohen and Cohen Road in Swan Lake after 9:00 p.m. Monday. They found Northcote’s dead body at the residence.

Sullivan County’s Sheriff’s Office is conducting an autopsy and have ruled the death a homicide. Police say they are following several leads but have not released how the man was killed or the motive.

According to police the area is of no danger to the public.

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