Burned body discovered in Broadway-Manchester neighborhood
Firefighters discovered a burned body in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood of Los Angeles on Friday morning.
The singed corpse, found just after 4 a.m. on the 300 block of W. 88th St., was not immediately identified and neither the age nor the gender of the deceased was known. The LAPD is investigating but had no information Friday morning.
The fire department’s arson squad and the L.A. County Coroner are also investigating.
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Noah Goldberg covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked on its breaking news team and has also written an array of offbeat enterprise stories. Before joining The Times in 2022, Goldberg worked in New York City as the Brooklyn courts reporter for the New York Daily News and as the criminal justice reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle. He graduated from Vassar College.
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