Authorities recovered the body of a man near the Lackawanna River in Carbondale on Thursday afternoon.
Carbondale police and firefighters responded to 100 Enterprise Drive around 1:30 p.m. The body of a man was found behind Millennium Packaging Services in the city, Police Chief Brian Bognatz said.
Lackawanna County Coroner Timothy Rowland said the man died by a self-inflicted gunshot and said the death is a suicide.
Authorities cleared the scene in an hour, Bognatz said.