Jake Robbins, Contributing Photographer

No information has emerged in the past week about a man who was killed by electrocution last Thursday while working on a Yale Golf Course renovation project.

Neither Yale nor the Connecticut medical examiner’s office have released the man’s name despite repeated requests to identify him.

Spokespeople for Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communication declined two requests from the News for the man’s name and other information about the incident.

University spokespeople have not clarified why they have remained silent, and they declined to explain the protocol for releasing information about deaths on Yale property.

The victim — identified as male in a brief statement from Yale on Saturday — was employed by the Stamford-based landscaping company Eastern Land Management. He was killed after touching a live electrical wire that had fallen down in a storm, according to the University statement.

New Haven Fire Department first responders were at the scene, but officers in the city police department were not, according to the New Haven Police Department’s public information officer Christian Bruckhart. New Haven’s fire marshals office did not respond to a phone call from the News asking for clarification about the incident.

Bruckhart attributed his department’s absence to a jurisdictional division between the New Haven Police Department and the Yale Police Department.

The golf course is on Yale property and therefore under the jurisdiction of the Yale police. Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell ’95 DIV ’09 wrote in a text message that he was not in New Haven at the time of the contractor’s death. He did not answer two further calls from the News.

The department did not send a message to Yale students about the contractor’s electrocution.

A spokesperson for the Connecticut medical examiner confirmed that the contractor’s cause of death was electrocution and that it was accidental, but the office has declined to share more information.

Alder Amy Marx LAW ’00, whose ward in Westville includes the golf course, told the News she did not know any details about the victim.

“My heart goes out to the family and friends for their loss and we hope that out of this tragedy there can be more community understanding of the dangers of live wires and the importance of safety when a tree has fallen in the neighborhood,” Marx said in a phone interview.

She added that she was on the scene after he was electrocuted but declined to share more information for this article.

Six neighbors living near the golf course told the News they had no information about the electrocution.

The regional manager for Eastern Land Management did not respond to the News’ request for comment.

Eastern Land Management’s President and CEO Bruce Moore Jr. expressed his sympathy for the victim in a statement to the News but declined to comment further.

“Our focus has been supporting our employee’s family and our team members that were affected by this tragic accident,” Moore wrote to the News.

Anastasia Mixsell, a tree system coordinator for the New Haven Parks Department, wrote in a statement to the News that she did not know about the storm or the downed tree.

“If this tree and incident was on Yale’s property, Yale would be in the best position to comment,” she wrote.

As of Thursday evening, Yale officials have not commented beyond the original statement shared with the News on Saturday.

“Yale offers its deepest condolences and sympathy to the family of the deceased,” the statement read.

James M. Hoak Jr. ’66, a former Yale golfer who helped lead the fundraising effort to renovate the course, is quoted in a press release from Yale’s “For Humanity” capital campaign calling the course “a Rembrandt.”

Reeti Malhotra contributed reporting.