Detectives begin to examine the interior of a car after getting a search warrant.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Police are investigating after a person was found dead inside a car parked in the lot at K-Mart in Chehalis today.
Chehalis Police Department Sgt. Rick McNamara said it was reported about 10 o’clock this morning.
He didn’t have much information and said a press release will be issued.
Officers, detectives and personnel with the Lewis County Coroner’s Office were gathered this afternoon at the south end of the lot on Northwest Louisiana Avenue.
The light green passenger car was parked at the far side of the lot and blocked off by police tape and a semi-circle of responders’ vehicles.
McNamara said they were working on finding out the identity of the person, he believed was a female. They had just secured a search warrant in order to get inside, he said.
The car has Washington license plates but the sergeant declined to say if police yet knew who the registered owner is.
It was just six weeks ago when the body of a 16-year-old boy from Camas was discovered in a Honda Accord parked in the lot of a shopping center just to the north of K-Mart, the Twin City Town Center. While the coroner is still waiting for the results of toxicology tests on Cole Burbank, authorities have said his death was not suspicious.
McNamara this afternoon said police don’t know yet if foul play might be involved in this death, but it’s customary to investigate as a suspicious death.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter