Volunteers Find Man's Body Stuffed in Suitcase While Cleaning Lake In California
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Volunteers were cleaning Lake Merritt on Tuesday morning when they spotted a suitcase floating at the edge of it.
A murdered man's body was found stuffed inside a suitcase during a cleanup of a lake in Oakland, California, on Halloween. According to the New York Post, volunteers were cleaning Lake Merritt on Tuesday morning when they spotted a suitcase floating at the edge of it. They used a small net to remove the suitcase and were left shocked to find a dead body in the suitcase.
The man appeared to be in his 30s and was crammed into the suitcase "kind of like in a fetal position,'' witnesses said.
''I wasn't shocked, but I was surprised it was a body in there," said Kevin Shomo, among the crew volunteers with Lake Merritt Institute who found the suitcase.
"We kind of pulled it towards us closer using these net poles. We grabbed one end and we realized it was too heavy. So we pulled it close enough to us and we said, 'Oh wow, this thing is heavy' so we unzipped it and that's what we found," Mr Shomo said.
