The death of Niles man discovered in a ditch on June 15 has been ruled as natural.

The Trumbull County coroner says 60-year-old Donald Hummer died of coronary artery disease. 

A police officer on patrol Thursday morning was flagged down by a citizen who had discovered a body on Route 422.

Hummer was found was across from the Sears Auto Center in a drainage ditch. 

The man's family was searching for him at the time his body was found.