BALTIMORE, MD — Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a woman found unresponsive and later pronounced dead inside a vehicle along I-695 in Baltimore County on Sunday morning.
The woman, whose identity has not yet been confirmed, was discovered shortly before 9:45 a.m. in the rear area of a black Jeep Wrangler with Maryland tags parked on the outer loop shoulder of I-695, just west of Perring Parkway.
According to Maryland State Police, a trooper from the Golden Ring Barrack stopped to check the vehicle and found the woman unresponsive. After several attempts to make contact, the trooper accessed the inside of the Jeep. Emergency medical personnel arrived and declared the woman deceased at the scene.
Her body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.
Troopers from the Golden Ring Barrack, the Maryland State Police Crash Team, and investigators from the Criminal Enforcement Division responded to the scene. Crime scene technicians from the Forensic Sciences Division processed the vehicle, with assistance from Baltimore County Police.
Maryland State Police said the investigation is ongoing.