A body has been discovered at a notorious Los Angeles homeless encampment that sits next to the LA River.
The corpse was found in a tent inside the squalid site next to the popular Griffith Park on Thursday morning.
Cops and fire crews swooped at around 7:30 a.m. before making the horrifying find. It comes just days after the California Post first exposed conditions at the encampment.
The Los Angeles Police Department is now probing the death after Los Angeles Fire Department crews, first on scene around 7:30 a.m.
Sources inside the camp told the Post the victim had only been living there for about two weeks and claimed he was on the run from police.
Pictures showed the body being bagged up and transported into the back of an ambulance before being taken away for investigation.
The grim discovery lands on the heels of the Post’s explosive report revealing how more than two dozen people are living along the filthy riverbed, sheltering in storm drains, scavenging for food, and washing in polluted water steps from one of LA’s most iconic parks.
Despite almost $1 billion poured into homelessness programs yearly, the crisis is spilling into ever more dangerous territory, from riverbeds to, as previously reported, even the city’s sewer system.
The body was found Thursday morning inside a sprawling encampment along the Los Angeles River at Griffith Park. Onscene.tvSome along the riverbed said they’ve been there for decades, cycling through shelters and treatment programs only to end up back in the same squalor.
One woman, who identified herself as Ises, said she came from Alaska and has lived along the river for 20 years.
She described battling mental illness and meth addiction, but said she stays for the freedom, and the animals she feeds along the bank.
Community advocate Cameron Flanagan, who has spent years working the stretch connecting unhoused residents to services, says the situation is spinning out of control.
The grim discovery lands on the heels of the Post’s explosive report on the river encampment
Police responded after LAFD said the discovered body was suspicious. Onscene.tvSpeaking to the Post Thursday morning, Flanagan blasted city leadership for looking the other way as conditions worsen.
“There is so much money just being thrown away, we’re never going to get out of this crisis the way we’re handling it,” she said. “The city isn’t spending money responsibly.”
The encampment is in mayoral hopeful Nithya Ramans district.
A spokesperson for Raman’s office told the The Post, “This is a devastating loss of life and one that underscores what’s at stake when we move too slowly. When there are delays in delivering services or getting people into housing, the consequences are not abstract, they are real, and they are fatal.”
Authorities have not released the man’s identity or the cause of death, saying only that the case is being investigated as “suspicious.”
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