LONG BEACH, Calif. (KCBS\/KCAL\/CNN\/CNN Newsource\/WKRC) – Human remains were discovered during an Easter egg hunt.<\/p>\n
An Easter egg hunt in a Long Beach park took a disturbing turn Sunday when a family discovered what they believe to be human remains, prompting a police investigation.<\/p>\n
Human remains were discovered during an Easter egg hunt.{ }(KCAL\/KCBS\/CNN\/CNN Newsource)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Officers responded to DeForest Park around 5 p.m. after receiving reports of possible human remains, according to the Long Beach Police Department. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner was called to the scene.<\/p>\n
The discovery was made during a family Easter gathering, when children searching for eggs came across what appeared to be a human skull, along with smaller bones nearby, witnesses told KCBS.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did start crying. It was sad,\u201d one witness told KCBS.<\/p>\n
Mark Zaldana, who was at the park for an Easter event, told KCBS he encountered the family shortly after the discovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty tragic \u2014 it\u2019s a day you want to spend with family. You don\u2019t expect something like this. You expect to have a wholesome time,\u201d Zaldana told KCBS. \u201cWe saw the family there doing an Easter egg hunt, but they were freaking out a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other residents told KCBS they were alarmed by the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s terrible. We saw police cars down here earlier when we were coming back from service,\u201d said Christopher Cain, a Long Beach resident.<\/p>\n
Crista Cain told KCBS the discovery was especially upsetting given the presence of children.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re devastated. We love this neighborhood, and to think this could happen to a little child,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Witnesses expressed concern for the children who may have encountered the remains.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust to be a child and find remains like that \u2014 it\u2019s traumatizing,\u201d Christopher Cain told KCBS.<\/p>\n
Authorities have not confirmed the identity of the remains or provided details about how long they may have been at the park.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. (KCBS\/KCAL\/CNN\/CNN Newsource\/WKRC) – Human remains were discovered during an Easter egg hunt. An Easter egg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-256972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256972","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=256972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}