{"id":496492,"date":"2010-03-31T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec5c50ef970b"},"modified":"2010-04-01T04:40:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:40:57","slug":"woman-who-first-spotted-burning-body-in-compton-thought-it-was-a-mannequin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/496492","title":{"rendered":"Woman who first spotted burning body in Compton thought it was a mannequin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. County Sheriff\u2019s Department released new details Wednesday about a <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/burning-body-compton.html\">burning body<\/a> discovered near <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/schools\/school\/compton\/compton-high\/\">Compton High School<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A woman was driving home from work about 3:15 a.m. Wednesday when she spotted what she thought was a mannequin engulfed in flames, said Lt. Liam Gallagher of the Sheriff&#8217;s Department.<\/p>\n<p>When rescue workers from the sheriff&#8217;s office and the Compton Fire Department arrived, they realized it was a body, Gallagher said. Firefighters put out the blaze, and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear if the person had been dead or alive when he or she was set on fire. <\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/includes\/projects\/js\/schools\/sidebars\/v1\/7360.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that the victim may have been an adult African American male, but Gallagher said the burns were so extensive that the body&#8217;s gender and race could not be determined. Homicide investigators were waiting on the results of an autopsy to identify the victim and determine the cause of death, he said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The body was found on the side of a street just south of Compton High School, near the football stadium. Deputies set up barriers around the crime scene and redirected students to a different school entrance to prevent them from seeing the body, Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;\u00a0Kate Linthicum<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide-report\/map\/\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maptease\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b-640wi\" style=\"WIDTH: 620px\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More breaking news in L.A. Now:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/city-councilman-paul-krekorian-to-launch-iphone-app.html\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\">L.A. City Councilman Paul Krekorian to launch iPhone app<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/report-californias-foreign-born-population-has-peaked.html\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\">Report: California\u2019s foreign-born population has peaked<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/fire-destroys-cabinetry-business-in-baldwin-park.html\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14px\">Fire destroys cabinetry business in Baldwin Park<\/a> <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. County Sheriff\u2019s Department released new details Wednesday about a burning body discovered near Compton High School. A woman was driving home from work about 3:15 a.m. Wednesday when she spotted what she thought was a mannequin engulfed in flames, said Lt. Liam Gallagher of the Sheriff&#8217;s Department. When rescue workers from the sheriff&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}