Crime & Safety

Body Found in Parking Garage Near USC Triggers Alert

Students and staff at USC received an emergency message Saturday morning warning them to stay away from a garage where a body was found.

A 24-year-old man was found dead in a parking garage near USC today, triggering an emergency message from campus police to the Trojan community.

The coroner’s office said it was a suicide, but Los Angeles police would not immediately confirm that.

Los Angeles police officers said the death was at a parking garage at 3540 S. Figueroa St., near the Radisson Hotel.

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USC faculty, staff and students were warned to stay away from the garage in an emergency message from the school’s police department at about 8:40 a.m., but USC police would not provide any details about their warning.

The area was crowded with people arriving for the annual L.A. Times Festival of Books.

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