Woman found dead behind Fort Lauderdale home

A woman’s body was found behind a Fort Lauderdale home on Thursday, and police consider the death suspicious.

The body was found just after 9 a.m. in a grassy area outside the home at 6840 NW 31st Ave., Fort Lauderdale police spokeswoman Casey Liening said. The residence is in the Palm Aire Village 1 community.

A man who lives in the duplex told Local 10 News that he found the woman’s body. He said she had no visible wounds. He saw her for the first time, alive, at 4 a.m. on Thursday, when she told him she was headed to get beer at a nearby gas station.

It’s unclear whether the woman lived in the community.

Shanquala Rahming, who lives at the address where the woman was found outside, said she did not know anything about the death.

Police consider the death suspicious, but gave no information about the woman or the nature of her death.

This story was originally published August 8, 2019 at 11:20 AM.