EDEN — Police continue to investigate a fatal shooting that occurred in Eden last week.
Authorities were notified of a shot fired at a home on Griggs Road at around 10:20 p.m.
Police say they located a deceased man at the scene.
Preliminary investigation indicates the parties involved fled the location following the shooting.
Police identified the victim as David Peatman, 66, a resident of the home at Griggs Road where the incident occurred.
An autopsy performed Saturday, at the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington determined the cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the chest, and the manner of death to be a homicide.
Anyone with information that could assist investigators in this case is being asked to call the Vermont State Police in Williston at 802-878-7111.
