Woman found dead near a Miami-Dade high school, and police are investigating
Homicide detectives and the county’s medical examiner’s office are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a South Miami-Dade residential area Tuesday morning.
The woman was found on the side of the road at Southwest 240th Street and 124th Avenue around 7 a.m., said Miami-Dade County Detective Angel Rodriguez, a police spokesman. Several people called the police to report the body, said Detective AC Colome.
The area where the woman was found is a mix of neighborhoods and farms, and is near several schools, including Somerset Academy Charter High School. Investigators taped off several blocks, and more than a dozen police cars came to the scene.
By Tuesday afternoon, police had cleared the scene, but did not release the woman’s identity, age or the state of the body. Detectives said the medical examiner is doing an autopsy to determine the cause of her death.
“Right now, it’s a death investigation pending the ME’s results,” Rodriguez said.
This report will be updated as more information becomes available.
This story was originally published February 8, 2022 at 10:30 AM.
