Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing whether an at­tempt to steal cop­per may have led to the death of a man whose body was dis­cov­ered at the for­mer Petrotrin Pointe-à-Pierre com­pound on Tues­day.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Kevin Tay­lor, al­so known by the alias­es Keron, Al­ka­line and Green Eye.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, a work­er dis­cov­ered Tay­lor ly­ing face-up in­side a gen­er­a­tor en­clo­sure near the ten­nis court on the east­ern side of the com­pound around 12.30 pm. He was not im­me­di­ate­ly iden­ti­fied, as no form of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion was found on his per­son.

Po­lice said Tay­lor did not have per­mis­sion to be on the com­pound at the time. While an au­top­sy is still to be con­duct­ed, in­ves­ti­ga­tors sus­pect he may have been elec­tro­cut­ed.

The cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the in­ci­dent bear sim­i­lar­i­ties to pre­vi­ous cas­es at the same fa­cil­i­ty. Five years ago, 14-year-old Michael Sook­nanan was found hang­ing from an elec­tric­i­ty pole on the com­pound. He was al­so be­lieved to have been at­tempt­ing to steal cop­per at the time.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent in 2016, Ker­ry Lewis, 38, died af­ter he was elec­tro­cut­ed while at­tempt­ing to con­nect an il­le­gal elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply from a pump­ing jack—linked to the na­tion­al elec­tric­i­ty grid—to his home.

Up to late Tues­day, the com­pa­ny had not is­sued a state­ment on the lat­est in­ci­dent and had not re­spond­ed to calls or mes­sages seek­ing com­ment.