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Officials: Body found in burning car in Va. park investigated as homicide

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WASHINGTON — Prince William County police have reclassified the cause of death in the investigation of the body found in Veterans Park on March 15.

Investigators are now treating the death as a homicide.

Around 7:45 a.m. on March 15, officers from the Prince William County Department of Fire & Rescue responded to a vehicle fire in Veterans Park. When they arrived, they found the vehicle fully engulfed in flames.

After extinguishing the fire, crews found a body in the vehicle and called in the Prince William County police, who pronounced the body dead at the scene.

Officials classified the investigation as a homicide after an autopsy. The cause of the victim’s death and the fire, as well as the identity of the victim, remain unknown and under investigation.

Prince William County police ask anyone with information to call the department at 703-792-7000 or submit a tip online at www.pwcgov.org/policetip.

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