Crime & Safety

Body Discovery Investigated As Suspicious Death In SGV

A woman was found dead Tuesday in what officials are reporting as a suspicious death in this San Gabriel Valley gateway city.

WHITTIER, CA — A body discovered in a San Gabriel Valley neighborhood has been flagged as a suspicious death according to official reports.

Police Tuesday were investigating the "suspicious" death of a woman whose body was found in Whittier.

"Officers were sent to the 11700 block of Floral Drive about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday on a report of a person down found the woman's body," Whittier police Officer John Scoggins said.

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The cause of death was unknown, but detectives were investigating the death as "suspicious," Scoggins said.

Information was not immediately released on the woman's name or age.

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