Los Angeles police asked for help Friday in their investigation into the discovery of a man found dead a day earlier in the back of a U-Haul truck in Los…
Los Angeles police asked for help Friday in their investigation into the discovery of a man found dead a day earlier in the back of a U-Haul truck in Los Angeles ' Mid-City area.
Authorities responded at about 11 a.m. to Redondo Boulevard and Apple Street, where they found the U-Haul truck parked on the street in a residential neighborhood. The man found dead inside the truck was identified by the coroner as 50-year-old Henry Jernigan. A woman noticed the truck had been parked in the neighborhood for some time and decided to call the company. U-Haul sent an employee to check out the vehicle and it was then that the grisly discovery was made. The employee lifted the truck's rear gate and discovered a tarp wrapped around what appeared to be a decomposing human body, police said.
"We're recovering the van, which was reported stolen earlier this month," said Lt. Robert Peters." found something in the back of it; he felt it might be remains, so he called police."issued a statement requesting help in finding the person"responsible for the murder." The death was determined to be a possible homicide because the body was wrapped tightly under a tarp, police said.
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