FFs, Police Find Bomb Materials at Fatal OH Hazmat Incident

BAY VILLAGE, OH—Authorities found bomb-making materials and other hazardous materials in a Bay Village home where a 29-year-old man died Tuesday, police said.

Investigators found Stephen P. Gurley’s body and the hazardous materials about 1:30 p.m. in his upstairs bedroom in an Arlington Circle home in the Huntington Woods development on Bradley Road, Bay Village police said.

Police and firefighters were called to the home about 1 p.m. after someone made a report that a man, later identified as Gurley, was not breathing.

Gurley suffered head trauma, but a statement released Wednesday by police said that investigators are unsure if someone inflicted the injury or if he suffered it in a fall.

Investigators found the suspicious materials, including a live pipe bomb, in the bedroom. They also discovered several inactive pipe bombs and additional chemicals.

Police evacuated homes in the development and the Westshore Enforcement Bureau’s Hazardous Devices Unit is investigating.

The medical examiner’s office has not yet determined Gurley’s cause and manner of death as of Wednesday morning.

Cuyahoga County property records show that the home is owned by Karen Gurley. Police confirmed that she is Stephen Gurley’s mother, and that he lived in the home along with his mother, father and brother.

Two cars were seen parked in the driveway of the home Wednesday morning, but no one was answered the door. Some neighbors did not answer their doors and others did not know about the incident or declined to comment.

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