SALT LAKE CITY — Police are investigating a suspicious death after a person was found dead in a field in downtown Salt Lake City.
On Monday, police identified the individual who died as 46-year-old Jennbah Tsosie.
Around 11 a.m. Sunday, Salt Lake City Police were called to a report of an unresponsive person found in an empty lot on the east side of 200 West, near approximately 535 S. and adjacent to a Motel 6. Officers arrived and confirmed that the individual, Tsosie, was deceased.
Members of the SLCPD Homicide Squad and Crime Lab responded to the scene and began the investigation.
"We are treating this as a suspicious death investigation based on the circumstances of how the body was found and some of the things that our detectives have seen once they took a closer look at the body," SLCPD spokesman Brent Weisberg said. "There was enough evidence on scene that kind of raised the hairs on the back of our neck, making us think that this is something suspicious, this is something of the ordinary, so we are going to treat it as a potential crime."
Police said there does not appear to be any threat to the public's safety.
The state medical examiner's office will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call SLCPD.
This incident comes the day after two people were found dead under suspicious circumstances inside an office building in Salt Lake City. Police later said a father killed his 16-year-old son before he died by suicide in the office. Weisberg said the two events are unrelated.
