{"id":706160,"date":"2010-03-31T10:53:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:53:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:55:14","slug":"burning-body-discovered-in-compton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706160","title":{"rendered":"Burning body discovered in Compton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Burning Body Found on Compton Street\" class=\"leadphoto \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ktla.com\/media\/photo\/2010-03\/53018275.jpg?resize=400%2C226\" style=\"margin: 8px; float: left;\" title=\"Burning Body Found on Compton Street\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" height=\"226\"><\/img>A burning body believed to be that of a man was discovered early Wednesday morning near Compton High School.<\/p>\n<p>L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s Department officers were called to the 300 block of West Cocoa Street at 3:15 a.m., said Sgt. David Infante, a spokesman for department. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The body was burned beyond recognition, but a preliminary investigation suggested it was an African American adult male, Infante said. <\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives are investigating the incident, Infante said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kate Linthicum<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Scene in Compton where burning body was found. KTLA News<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/homicide-report\/map\/\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maptease\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a845c3e0970b-640wi\" style=\"width: 620px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A burning body believed to be that of a man was discovered early Wednesday morning near Compton High School. L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s Department officers were called to the 300 block of West Cocoa Street at 3:15 a.m., said Sgt. David Infante, a spokesman for department. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XHG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807063,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706160\/revisions\/807063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}