New Orleans police say they 're investigating the death of a man found with his neck lodged between two posts of an iron fence that wraps around around a shopping center . Police say the man was found Thursday morning . The fence is about chest-high with bluntly pointed iron posts a few inches apart . Officer Garry Flot says the man was a 58-year-old local and was pronounced dead at the scene . Scene : While initial reports said the 58-year-old local man was impaled , local media say his head was found caught in the fence by the neck outside the shopping center at Carrollton and Tulane in New Orleans . He says the coroner will determine the cause of death . The death is currently listed as 'unclassified ' . Flot says a woman walking by saw the body about 7 am and called police . The Times-Picayune reports that police put a red tarp over the spot to shield the body from view . According to WWL.com , initial reports that the man had been impaled were inaccurate . It appears the man somehow got his head stuck . The investigation continues .
Local man was lodged between two blunt posts from the roof . he was pronounced dead at 7 am by a drive - by at the corner of Carrollton and cemetery in New ##town . Death has been described as ' unclassified '