Body found in trash bin in SW Miami-Dade residential neighborhood
MIAMI -- Police are investigating just how the body of an adult male ended up in the trash bin of a home in a Southwest Miami-Dade residential neighborhood.
Homicide investigators were called to a home in the 8400 block of SW 161st Place shortly before 5 p.m., according to Miami-Dade police.
"To me is shocking seeing things like this happening here," said a neighbor two houses down from where the body was found.
Police said the discovery was made at around 2 p.m. and that the body had suffered from an apparent gunshot wound.
A garbage collector with the Department of Solid Waste found the body in a trash bin at the home.
"Once the driver of this truck (Solid Waste) observed what appeared to be the body, he got out and verified it was indeed a deceased person... preliminary findings indicate this was a suicide, an investigation is being conducted and is in its preliminary stages and still on going," said Miami-Dade police Detective Andre Martin.
The owner of the house where the body was found in a trash bin talked to CBS News Miami.
"The first thing I thought was that someone killed that person and threw the body in our trash can, but police are not confirming that, we're speechless," she said.
Investigators were working to identify the body.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS (8477).
