A man was found dead Wednesday in the doorway of a freight elevator at the rear of a commercial building in downtown Los Angeles.
Paramedics were sent to the 800 block of South Broadway about 11:40 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Information was not immediately available on the identity of the person, described by the fire department only as a male whose age was not known.
According to the LAFD, the person was found "trapped at the 2nd floor level freight elevator doorway at the rear of a 6 story commercial building.''
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The circumstances of the death were under investigation.
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