INDIANAPOLIS — Police are investigating a homicide after a dead body was found in a vehicle that had been taken to a tow yard on the south side of Indianapolis.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to the 2300 block of South California Street on reports of a possible dead body found just before 7 p.m.
An employee of JR’s Services and Recovery LLC was walking past a vehicle that had recently been towed to the lot and spotted the top of a human head inside, IMPD said. The vehicle was towed from a McDonald's without keys and was locked from the inside.
Upon arrival, officers located a deceased adult male inside the vehicle.
In an update, IMPD said the victim was found to have suffered injuries consistent with a gunshot wound.
The death is now being investigated as a homicide.
Anyone with information about this incident should call Detective Anthony Johnson at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317.327.3475 or e-mail the detective at Anthony.Johnson@indy.gov.
