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Concord police believe a 47-year-old transient pulled dead from a creek
in Newhall Park drowned after falling in.
A neighborhood resident pulled the man from the water at about 5 p.m.
yesterday. Police and paramedics arrived minutes later and rushed the
man to John Muir Medical Center, where a doctor pronounced him dead.
The resident told police he had seen the man in the creek earlier in the
day and told him to get out of the water, police said. The resident told
investigators the transient was alert but may have been drunk, said
police Lt. Keith Whitaker.
The resident said he returned about 5 p.m. to check on the transient and
found him lying in the water, Whitaker said.
Police withheld the man's identity but said he was a transient often
seen in the area.
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