Responding to a welfare check request, Niagara Regional Police officers made a grim discovery last Thursday at the Spring Valley Manor apartments, at 1600 Pelham St. in Fonthill. Officers used a ladder to access a second-floor unit, entering through a window. Inside, they found the body of tenant Ronald Snoei, 60.
“At approximately 1 PM...our officers arrived on scene and were able to gain access to one of the apartment units,” NRP spokesperson Phil Gavin told the Voice. “A person was found deceased inside. Foul play is not suspected and the incident is being treated as medical in nature.”
In recent years Snoei had worked as a self-employed handyman. His advertising for “Ron’s Bathroom Renovations” occasionally appeared in the Voice.
