Posted on 09/14/2014 5:51:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) — The body of a man was found inside a trunk of a car outside a Walmart in Riverside.
The body was reportedly found inside a gold Lexus GS 300 around 4:45 p.m. outside the store located in the 5200 block of Van Buren Boulevard.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said the victim was likely killed in Pomona, where the car owner lived.
Witnesses told KCAL9’s Adrianna Weingold the woman was freaking out about recognizing the dead man as her neighbor.
Detectives from the Pomona Police Department have taken over the investigation. They would not confirm how the woman knew the dead man.
The Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner was expected to determine the victim’s identity and conduct an autopsy.
Weingold said detectives were working the scene hours later trying to determine how the body got inside the car.
She reported that a shopper went to put bags in her car when she made the gruesome discovery.
The woman told police she smelled something funny — all day — but was shocked to find a body in the trunk.
“She was freaking out,” said witness Robert Lugan, “they had to put her in a squad car and take her home.”
Police would not confirm how long the dead man might have been in the trunk.
“He was around the neighborhood last night,” said witness Lugan,”and the husband didn’t like it. Told him to leave. And now she saw her neighbor in the trunk.”
“It’s hot out so it’s hard to say how long the body had been there, it won’t take long for a body to decompose in this weather,” said Sgt. Dave Amador with the Riverside Police Department.
“It’s very unusual,” Sgt. Amador said, “it’s one of a kind. I mean, we do get bodies in trunks. But to open it up and say they know him. And didn’t know they were in there, that’s unusual.”
Poorly written
I’ll say.
I think I’d be talking to the neighbor’s husband.
“He was in the neighborhood last night. Husband didn’t like it. Told him to go away.” Lexus in Walmart parking lot. “he” in Lexus trunk. Moral of story. If you want to be noticed, don’t park a Lexus in a Walmart Parking lot.
The strangest thing about this is that a woman driving a lexus is shopping at Walmart.
Lieutenant Columbo would clear this up in less than an hour, with time out for commercial breaks.
At first I thought it was a separate car from the woman’s. At the conclusion I thought it was the woman’s own car. You don’t suppose the dude is a looney tune who got in the trunk of her car and shot himself?
they only teach Marxism in journalism schools, of late. English and its usage is an elective.
My supposition is that he was bird dogging up the wrong tree.
Who has their groceries carried out to their car at Walmart? Looks like a setup to get someone else to look in the trunk, then feign surprise.
lol >> (Columbo fan here)
Where does it say that?
It was an old Lexus. I think the last year for the GS300 was 2004 or 2005
Ewww ... my brother in law used to work at that Walmart, and we would stay overnight in the parking lot in our motorhome when visiting him. It’s a popular overnight spot for RVs and semi trucks because it’s easy on/off from the 91 freeway, it’s free, the parking lot has all night patrol, and there’s a McDonald’s in the parking lot as well.
Oops, my bad. I misread the phrase “shopper went to put bags in her car” as a worker . . . .
Strange? I suspect most peoples driving a Lexus can not afford one.
I wonder if he was a stalker and hid in her trunk in order to follow her somewhere, and was then overcome by the heat and passed out and died. Weirder things have happened.
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