Crime & Safety

Body Found Beside the Road Near Sleep Train Amphitheater

The body was discovered by a jogger.

A person was found dead today along the side of a Chula Vista roadway.

A jogger alerted police to the discovery off Heritage Road, just south of the Sleep Train Amphitheater, shortly after 7 a.m., according to Chula Vista police Capt. Lon Turner. The body was that of a male, but police have yet to release an approximate age.

Turner said detectives from the Crimes of Violence division had launched an investigation.

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