German artist and furniture maker Markus Pohlmann, 56, was found dead at his home in Las Cuevas on Sunday. Police are investigating the incident as a suspected suicide.

Pohlmann, a resident of LP No. 6B Rincon Road, Las Cuevas, was a German national from Hamburg who held residency in Trinidad. Police were contacted around 10.04 a.m. by a friend who went to check on him and found him lying motionless in a room. Officers from the Maracas Bay Police District responded and observed the body on a bed. Police said it showed signs of decomposition, and a note believed to be a suicide note was recovered at the scene.

Pohlmann was last seen alive on December 19.