Homicide detectives on scene of Southwest Portland suspicious death

Portland detectives investigate the suspicious death of a woman whose body was found in a unit of the Collective Portland apartments at 2073 Southwest Park Ave. Maxine Bernstein/The Oregonian  

Homicide detectives and forensic specialists have spent Wednesday morning on the scene of what police are describing as a woman's suspicious death in a Southwest Portland apartment.

Sgt. Pete Simpson, spokesman for Portland police, said officers were called to the Portland Collective apartments at 2073 S.W. Park Ave. just before 10 p.m. Tuesday and found a woman's body.

Simpson did not release any details about who called police, the woman's identity or how she might have died. But what officers saw prompted them to investigate further.

On Wednesday morning, forensic specialists were taking photographs and measurements inside the apartment unit where the woman's body was discovered.

Homicide detectives had set up a mobile command center near the apartment complex, which is situated south of Interstate 405, as the investigation continues.

One of two large blue Dumpsters behind the multi-unit apartment complex had been cordoned off with yellow police tape and then removed, residents said.

One resident said she had heard an ambulance respond to the unit where the suspicious death occurred but did not know the woman who lived there.

The unit that police have cordoned off is on the northwestern end of the 52-unit apartment complex.

State medical examiners will conduct an autopsy on the body Wednesday to determine cause of death.

The Collective Portland apartment complex on Southwest Park Avenue where police are investigating a woman's suspicious death. Maxine Bernstein/The Oregonian  

Laura Wolfenson, who moved into the complex about a month ago, said she is out of town but her neighbors sent her texts that someone had died in their complex.

Wolfenson said the complex contains a mix of residents, including Portland State University students, young professionals and a few elderly residents.

"It's a really quiet complex. I'm surprised something like this happened,'' Wolfenson said.

A woman who answered the phone at Collective Portland apartments and would only give her name as Jenny said, "Everyone's concerned. It's a little community here.''
 

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