SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Sioux City police are investigating the death of a person whose body was found inside an apartment used by transients as a homicide.
Police said the body found Tuesday appeared to have signs of blunt force trauma. They did not release the gender of the victim, who apparently had been dead about a week, The Sioux City Journal reported.
“Detectives are investigating the death as a homicide and are waiting for an examination by the medical examiner to determine cause of death,” Sgt. Jeremy McClure said.
The person’s name has not been released pending notification of relatives.
McClure said the apartment where the body was found appears to have been used by transients as a flop house.
The apartment is the Park Place Apartments, where officers on Nov. 1 found Solomon J. Blackbird, 33, injured from a gunshot. He died later at a hospital.
The two deaths do not appear to be related, McClure said.
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