Body Of Man Found Stuffed Inside Refrigerator Of South LA Apartment

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Detectives continued to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose body was found stuffed inside the refrigerator.

The gruesome discovery at the apartment complex in the 600 block of West 57th Street in South Los Angeles was made about 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Police said maintenance crews were cleaning the apartment on the second-floor when they found the body in a refrigerator. Authorities said the resident of the apartment was being evicted.

Fabian Morales who lives next-door wonders if it's the man who lived in the apartment. He said that man oftentimes yelled.

"He would stay up for days, nights at a time and then he would start screaming about blowing up the neighborhood, hurting people," he said.

Morales said he had even called police reporting the man.

"He pushed me. He pushed my wife and that's when we filed charges on him," he said.

Detectives said the man wasn't stabbed or shot, but were treating his death as a homicide.

According to Morales, it's been quiet in the apartment for a while. He says it's unfortunate if the victim was indeed his neighbor.

"I wish he would have got the help he needed," Morales said. The identity of the victim was not known.

Police said there were no signs of a break-in at the apartment and that it doesn't appear that the body had been there very long.

A cause of death was not immediately known as detectives were awaiting autopsy results.