{"id":238361,"date":"2026-03-27T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238361\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:32:08","slug":"man-found-dead-in-empty-police-car-at-azusa-police-department-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238361\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in empty police car at Azusa Police Department \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was found dead inside an unoccupied police car parked in front of the Azusa Police Department headquarters in Los Angeles County early Thursday, officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Azusa Police Department, the man was discovered unresponsive at around 4:50 a.m. inside a vehicle that was slated for mandatory maintenance and not in active use by police personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics were called to the scene to attempt to help the man, but he was pronounced dead just before 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances surrounding the man\u2019s death are under investigation. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner and the Azusa Police Department Detective Bureau are handling the case.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>The police department said additional details may be released as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was found dead inside an unoccupied police car parked in front of the Azusa Police Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[80996,48,52,51,47,50,49,5760],"class_list":{"0":"post-238361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-azusa","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-san-gabriel-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}