Maricopa Police are awaiting the results of an autopsy in a suspicious death case Monday after the deceased was found early Monday morning in a Rancho el Dorado home from an unknown cause.
Maricopa Police Department spokesman Ricardo Alvarado said the death is being treated as suspicious because the deceased was not known to be receiving treatment for any specific ailment.
“Typically, when you have some type of a death, you have some kind of a [primary] care doctor that will sign off on a death certificate,” Alvarado said. “In this situation there is no [primary] care doctor so we have to have an autopsy, and the autopsy will determine what they rule [the cause of death] as.”
The deceased has not yet been identified.
An autopsy is scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday.
This is a developing story. Continue to follow InMaricopa for more updates.
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