Human remains found in parked car in central Las Vegas
A man’s remains were found in a car parked at an apartment complex in central Las Vegas Friday afternoon.
Las Vegas police responded to a complex in the 3600 block of West Tropicana Avenue around 1:45 p.m. after a witness reported a suspicious white BMW with a foul odor coming from it.
Officers opened the trunk of the car and found human remains, according to Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jason Johansson.
“Based on the condition of those remains it is clear that it is a homicide,” Johansson said.
He did not say how the body was found.
Johansson did not know the approximate age of the person found or their cause of death.
He did say police were seeking the public’s help and trying to acquire video from the area to help determine when the car arrived at the complex.
Police said Saturday that the man had been left in the car for some time based on how much the body had decomposed.
No further information was available.
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