Autopsies Pending for 2 Bodies Found in Belmont Shore

LONG BEACH, CA -- Autopsies were pending Tuesday on the bodies of a man and a woman found in the same general area in Long Beach, but there was no apparent connection between the two deaths.

The nude body of 43-year-old Michael McCreadie was found on the beach at the waterline near the 5400 block of East Ocean Boulevard at 5:50 a.m. Monday, according to the Long Beach Police Department. The coroner's office did not immediately have a place of residence listed for McCreadie.

"The deceased individual on the beach is a male adult with an apparent gunshot wound to the upper torso," said Long Beach police Sgt. Brad Johnson.

The man apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Nancy Pratt, also of the Long Beach Police Department.

Police searched the beach and the water near the shoreline for a weapon, but none has been found, Pratt said.

While police were conducting the investigation, officers found a second body inside a parked SUV, Johnson said.

The body inside the blue Ford Explorer, which was parked along the south curb of Ocean Boulevard, was that of 49-year-old woman who died of apparent natural causes, police said.

The woman, who may have been homeless and living out of her vehicle, appeared to have been in poor health although her body showed no obvious signs of trauma, police said.

Based on the preliminary findings, investigators do not believe there is any connection between these two cases, but the investigation continues, police said.

-- City News Service, photo via Shutterstock