Oakland police are investigating a suspicious death in the area of Lake Merritt.
Volunteers with a cleanup crew found the suitcase in the water near the intersection of Lakeshore and Hanover avenues.
"Normally we see luggage in the lake," cleanup volunteer Kevin Shomo said."Sometimes it's full of clothes and it gets heavy from the water. We got near the body. We saw it and I said, 'Wow, how are we going to get this out of here? It looks like it's heavy.' We pulled it towards us closer using these net poles and we grabbed one end and then realized it was too heavy...We unzipped it and that’s what we found.
Shomo said he and other members of the cleanup crew spotted the large suitcase about five feet from shore.When they hauled it in, they opened it up and found what they believe to be an adult man wrapped in what appeared to be a sheet.Dive teams pulled the suitcase and body out of the water. Homicide detectives were trying to figure out how the person died and how long the body had been in the lake.
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