Over the weekend in Houston, a police officer found a body in the backseat of their patrol car. The officer, from the Mental Health Division, discovered the corpse when they arrived at their vehicle at department headquarters to start their afternoon shift. The cause of the man's presence in the car is unclear, but authorities believe he may have been seeking shelter from the weather, as reported by Click2Houston.
An investigation is underway to determine how a body ended up in a police vehicle. The vehicle was found outside a city-run substance abuse treatment facility around 2:30 p.m. last Saturday. The Houston Police Department is working to clarify the circumstances, and it is still unclear whether the vehicle was secured at the time. Officer Erika Ramirez, a spokesperson for the department, confirmed that efforts to understand the full story are ongoing, according to ABC News.
The identity and cause of death of a man found in a car in Houston are still under investigation. Early signs show no obvious trauma, leading authorities to believe he was homeless and seeking shelter from a rainstorm that hit the city on Saturday. "It seems like he was a homeless man seeking shelter from the weather," Officer Ramirez told ABC News. Investigators are still working to determine how long the man had been in the car before it was found.
