'Suspicious death.' Woman found dead in Lower Valley vacant lot

A woman's body was found in a vacant lot in the Lower Valley on Sunday morning in a case being investigated as a "suspicious death" by El Paso police detectives, a police spokesman said.

The body of the unidentified woman, who was believed to be in her 30s, was found about 10 a.m. Sunday, July 21, after police received a call about a person lying on the ground in a vacant lot at Lafayette Drive near Alameda Avenue, police said.

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"Due to the manner in which the person was found the death is being considered suspicious in nature, however the manner of death is not known at this time," read a police media statement.

The death is under investigation by crime-scene investigators and detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit.

The scene had been cleared by late Sunday afternoon, which would be unusually short amount of time if the case was actually a homicide.

The Lafayette Drive death investigation was part of a busy weekend for El Paso police, including a fatal pedestrian crash, a bar shooting that wounded two people and a shooting that killed a 24-year-old man at an apartment complex on the far East Side.

The area is near railroad tracks and a canal in a neighborhood west of the intersection of Yarbrough Drive and Alameda Avenue.

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Anyone who may have information on suspicious activity in the area of the 200 block of Lafayette Drive in the last 24 hours is asked to call the police nonemergency line at 915-832-4400 or may anonymously call Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 915-566-8477 (TIPS).