San Diego County sheriff’s deputies discovered the body of a woman in Alpine Tuesday after a tip from Los Angeles County homicide investigators.
The homicide detectives asked deputies to locate and recover a body from the 600 block of Alpine Heights Road around 9:40 p.m.
The location is a stretch of road east of Harbison Canyon Road and south of Interstate 8.
The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of death as well as positively identify the woman officials described as elderly.
An NBC 7 news crew is in Alpine, a community approximately 30 miles east of downtown San Diego.
Check back for updates to this developing story.
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