Details: CASE#: 21B302161
TROOPER: Detective Trooper Adria Pickin
STATION: VSP Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Troop B West – New Haven Barracks
DATE/TIME: 1:48 p.m. Saturday, July 31, 2021
LOCATION: Somerset Reservoir parking area, Somerset, VT
INCIDENT: Death investigation
VICTIM: Joseph Schoenig
AGE: 73
CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Bennington, Vermont
SUMMARY OF INCIDENT:
The Vermont State Police is investigating a death that was reported Saturday, July 31, 2021. Police were notified at 1:48 p.m. that a body was found inside a vehicle located in a parking area at the Somerset Reservoir in the town of Somerset, Vermont. Responding troopers processed the scene and found evidence that was consistent with a firearm-related death by suicide. The victim was identified as Joseph Schoenig, 73, of Bennington, who had been reported missing to the Bennington Police Department on July 19.
Schoenig’s body was transported to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death. The death is not considered suspicious. Anyone with information that might be relevant to the investigation is asked to contact Detective Trooper Adria Pickin of the VSP Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Troop B West – New Haven Barracks at 802-388-4919. |