SHARON, Pa. - The Sharon Police Department and the Mercer County Coroner's Office need help to identify the remains of a man's body found in a creek Tuesday. 

Coroner John Libonati told 21 News that the body was found around 2:30 p.m. near E. Connelly Boulevard and the Shenango Valley Freeway.

When found, the man was wearing a pair of blue jeans, black Nike socks, and one Merrill shoe. 

He is described as a bald male of unknown ethnicity, missing several teeth.

He does have a tattoo of the side profile of a Native American in a headdress with the phrase, "Tell chief white one lives again."

 

Libonati said the body is that of an unidentified adult male and had been there for five days.

Since then, an autopsy performed Wednesday found the cause of death was environmental exposure complicated by a terminal element of aquatic immersion by the coroner's office. 

Police said the manner of death will remain undetermined pending further forensic testing and investigation into the events of how the man may have entered the water before being discovered.

Police are asking anyone with information regarding the identity of the man to call Captain Mark Hynes at 724-983-3210 or contact the Mercer County 911 Center at this number 724-662-6110.