Crime & Safety

Dead Body Found In Vehicle In Lakewood Parking Lot: Authorities

Police and investigators from the prosecutor's office and the sheriff's department are at a shopping center on East Kennedy Boulevard.

LAKEWOOD, NJ —Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a person found in a vehicle at a shopping plaza in Lakewood on Thursday, police said.

Lakewood Capt. Gregory Staffordsmith said police, the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office and the Ocean County Sheriff's Department are at the scene in the parking lot of the Glatt Bite on East Kennedy Boulevard.

Staffordsmith said further details would be released later.

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The Lakewood Scoop reported the person was a man and was found in the back seat of a van.

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