WASHINGTON (AP) - A body found over the weekend by Maryland firefighters attempting to put out a brush fire has been determined to be a woman slain in Washington, D.C.
Police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, tell reporters that the District’s Metropolitan Police Department has now taken over the investigation. A county police statement says the severely burned body was found early Saturday in an unincorporated area of Bowie after the flames were extinguished.
It says an autopsy conducted the next day determined the body was that of an adult woman who suffered multiple injuries. Her death was ruled a homicide. A subsequent investigation determined the woman was killed within the District’s city limits.
Authorities didn’t immediately release the woman’s identity or details about her injuries.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.