Pa. man dies after assault in Ocean City, Md.

OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — Police in Ocean City are investigating the death of a Pennsylvania man after he was apparently assaulted.

City spokeswoman Jessica Waters says 37-year-old Justin Daniel Cancelliere (kan-sel-YARE’-ay) of North Whitehall, Pennsylvania, died of his injuries Sunday at Atlantic General Hospital.

Ocean City Police were dispatched at 3:15 a.m. Sunday to the Plim Plaza hotel, where they found Cancelliere unconscious and unresponsive in the parking lot.

Police say the state medical examiner’s office will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.

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