A person’s decomposing body covered in wounds has been discovered wrapped in a plastic sheet and dumped inside a shopping cart near a California supermarket.
The grim discovery was made after 4 p.m. Sunday outside of the Food Maxx food market on Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy. in Chico, a city situated about 80 miles north of Sacramento.
A passerby called 911 to report that an individual seen contained in the cart seemed to be dead.
Cops found the cart near the front of the business containing a person’s body wrapped in a big white plastic sheet, based on the Chico Police Department.
The victim was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics.
Cops said the unidentified adult male had suffered visible injuries, prompting them to launch a homicide investigation.
Detective Lieutenant Brian Miller, with the Chico PD, told the station Motion News Now that the cart containing the body had likely been in front of the supermarket for several days.
Miller also said that investigators have obtained surveillance footage showing a possible suspect moving the cart.
“We were in a position to see some movement. We were in a position to see a shopping cart, a suspect, and the decedent moving on the sidewalk here,” said Miller.
Cops were back on the scene Monday taking samples of suspicious stains on the bottom outside the food market based on the shopping cart’s path, as seen within the surveillance footage.
An autopsy can be performed on the victim to find out his cause and manner of death.
As of Wednesday, no additional information has been released on the person within the cart, and no suspect has been named.
