The body of a Buffalo man was found on the ice in Presque Isle Bay in northwestern Pennsylvania on Saturday, according to affiliate WJET.
The Erie County Coroner says the body of 65-year-old Thomas Fields was recovered at the foot of Dobbins Landing.
Coroner Lyell Cook says Fields, a former Erie resident, was visiting family but wandered away at about midnight.
According to WJET, he was reported missing around 4:45 a.m. and suffered from dementia.
Erie police say surveillance video shows him alone when he fell from the dock just after 6 a.m. Saturday.
Someone passing by spotted the body shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday.
Cook said Fields died of hypothermia.The death has been ruled accidental.
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