Crime & Safety

Body Found Inside Car At Round Rock Retention Pond

Police got a call at about 10:30 a.m. alerting them to the vehicle, later finding a body inside.

ROUND ROCK, TX — A body was found inside a vehicle submerged in a retention pond Monday morning at the Texas A&M Health Science Center's Round Rock campus, officials said.

Police were called at 10:30 a.m. about the car behind the medical school on Grimes Boulevard, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Upon their arrival, police found a woman's body inside the vehicle.

Family and friends of the deceased woman identified her to the Statesman as Lessie Coleman, 56, although Round Rock police have yet to provide an official identification. It's unknown how the driver came to crash inside the detention pond, and police continue to investigate.

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