Officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau were heading to Northbridge Park in Valencia to investigate a body that was found in the middle of the basketball courts there Wednesday morning.
The body was lying in a pool of blood next to a shotgun in a scene surrounded by police tape as of about 8 a.m.
Deputies responded to the scene around 6:50 a.m. Wednesday, after the station received a report of a person not responding.
Homicide officials were notified shortly thereafter and were en route to the park as of 8:10 a.m., according to an officer with the Homicide Bureau.
There was no additional information available as of the publication of this story.
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