(Published Sunday, Sep 14, 2014) 
 
 Riverside police said a woman who reported finding a body decomposing in the trunk of her Lexus after she noticed the smell in the parking lot of a Southern California Walmart Saturday was not considered a suspect in the case. The body was reportedly found inside a gold Lexus GS 300 around 4:45 p.m. outside the store located in the 5200 block of Van Buren Boulevard. Pomona police were called to assist in the investigation because the woman lives with her husband in Pomona. to report that she had discovered a dead man in her car trunk. The Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner was expected to determine the victim’s identity and conduct an autopsy. And now she saw her neighbor in the trunk.” 
 
 “It’s hot out so it’s hard to say how long the body had been there, it won’t take long for a body to decompose in this weather,” said Sgt. Dave Amador with the Riverside Police Department. 2014 SoCal Images in the News 
 
 "(It's) very unusual, I mean, it's a one-of-a-kind," said Riverside Police Sgt. Amador said it was unclear how the man died. Police were questioning a woman who reported finding the decomposing body of a man in the trunk of her Lexus. "We do get bodies in trunks, but when they open it up and say they know them and didn't know they were in there, that's unusual."
– A California woman says she has no idea how a dead body wound up in the trunk of her Lexus. The Riverside woman says she'd thought the car smelled funny as she left work yesterday, but she stopped at Walmart thinking nothing of it. When she opened the trunk to put her shopping bags inside, she made the gruesome discovery. "She was freaking out," one witness tells CBS 2. "They had to put her in a squad car and take her home." Witnesses say the woman recognized the man as a neighbor. "He was around the neighborhood last night," one witness says, "and the husband didn't like it. Told him to leave. And now she saw her neighbor in the trunk." Police initially considered the woman a person of interest and questioned her, but they now say she isn't a suspect, NBC LA reports. "It's very unusual," one police sergeant says. "I mean, we do get bodies in trunks. But to open it up and say they know him. And didn't know they were in there, that's unusual."