A 62-year-old veteran who had been missing for a month was found dead in a Massachusetts VA hospital's stairwell

• A 62-year-old veteran was found dead on Friday at the Bedford VA Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, a month after he was reported missing.
• The man has not been publicly identified, but officials said he was staying on the hospital's property through a homelessness nonprofit and has a residential facility at the Bedford VA Hospital.
• The man lived in a different building than the one he was found in, and Caritas Communities said in a statement that the stairwell in which he was found is "alarmed and solely controlled by the VA."
• The Middlesex District Attorney's Office is investigating how and when the man died.

A 62-year-old veteran who had been missing for a month was found dead in a stairwell at a Massachusetts VA hospital where he was staying prior to his disappearance.

The man, whose name has not been released, was found on Friday at the Bedford VA Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Prior to his death, he was last seen at the facility on May 8, CBS Boston reported. He was reported missing on May 13, according to CNN. When his body was found on Friday, he was wearing the same clothes he was last seen in.

The man was a resident of Caritas Communities, a nonprofit working to prevent homelessness in the Boston area, which runs a residential facility called Bedford Veterans Quarters at the Bedford VA Hospital and offers staffing to "refer and help residents connect to counseling, medical treatment, employment, and other services at the VA," according to a news release from the organization.

The man lived in Building five at the VA, CBS Boston reported, but his body was found in a different location in the VA Hospital.

"The stairwell where the deceased man was found was outside the lease premises of Caritas Communities, is alarmed and solely controlled by the VA," Caritas Communities said in a statement.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan called the man's death "very concerning" in a statement to CBS Boston, and said the office is conducting an investigation into the incident.

The cause of death remains unclear, an autopsy is being conducted to determine when and how the man died, Ryan told the outlet.

Michael Hasson, who lived two buildings away from the man who died, said he had noticed his disappearance.

"He was just the friendliest guy to talk to," Hasson told CBS Boston. "Everybody's kind of scratching their heads like where did this guy go? He wouldn't just disappear like that."

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