Investigation underway after person found deceased in Hancock Park

The Los Angeles Police Department is looking into what led up to a person’s death in Hancock Park late Monday morning.

According to an LAPD spokesperson, the call regarding an individual being found dead near the corner of 4 ^th Street and La Brea Avenue came in just before 11:15 a.m.

Very little information on the circumstances leading up to the gruesome discovery was available; however, KTLA 5’s Rich Prickett observed from Sky5 that the body appeared to have been found “tucked behind planters” near the sidewalk.

Police officers were seen putting up a canopy to cover the body. It was not immediately established whether the person was the victim of a homicide or died of natural causes.

No details surrounding the decedent’s identity are known.

The sidewalk surrounding the area in which the body was found was blocked off while police began their investigation.

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