Man's charred body found in burned car in Anaheim

Anaheim police and arson specialists are investigating the death of a man whose remains were found inside a burned car in Anaheim.

The unidentified man's body was discovered about 7:45 p.m. Monday by firefighters responding to a fire in a commercial building in the 1000 block of north Shepard Street near La Palma Avenue, said Anaheim Police Sgt. Rick Ramirez.

After dousing the flames for almost an hour, firefighters told police they had found a charred body in the driver's seat of a two-door Nissan parked inside the warehouse-like building, Ramirez said. The car was registered to an employees of the business, he said.

“That employee is still unaccounted for,” he added.

The cause of the fire remained under investigation.

“There are some indications that lead us to believe that this may have been a suicide,” Ramirez said. “However, we are not ruling anything else out.”

 -- Ruben Vives

Comments

[E. Tang]

Suicide is quite unlikely; how many people choose that means as a method? Generally speaking, it's so uncertain and so painful that only those wishing to "make a statement" in front of a large public, audience choose to immolate themselves.