YOUNGSTOWN — The frozen body of a man was found in a tent on the north side of Ridge Avenue, which runs east and west just north of downtown, early Thursday.

Youngstown police were contacted at 12:43 a.m. by a homeless man who said he had discovered the man cold to the touch, stiff, slumped over and not responsive.

He said he walked to Ridge Avenue to have someone make a 911 call for him.

He told officers the last time he saw the man alive was about two nights earlier.

The officer asked the man to show him where the man was. He took the officer down a hill to some woods north of Ridge Road. When they unzipped the man’s tent, they found a male “slumped over with frost all over his body and stiff,” the report states.

His tent was near the “homeless camp” of the man who found the body, the report states.

Ambulance personnel checked the man and pronounced him dead at 12:56 a.m. Ambulance personnel also called the coroner’s office. The Youngstown Police Department called out crime scene personnel and a detective to gather evidence.

The report noted that when the body was moved, a crack pipe was found “frozen to the body,” the report states. A needle and needle cap also were found next to the body.

Lt. Mohammad Awad of of the Youngstown Police Department Detective Division said the death is being investigated as an overdose death.

Because of the hill in the area where the body was found, the city road department was contacted to put down salt. The road department also provided a rope to help the Coroner’s Office’s body removal team bring the body up the hill.

Other items mentioned in the report as having been found were a cellphone and ID card.