Police found the body of an unidentified man in a car in the parking lot of the Beretania Street Times Supermarket yesterday afternoon.

The man’s body was found slumped over in the passenger’s seat of an abandoned maroon Toyota Camry outside the Clean Living Hakuyosha dry cleaners in the Times complex, with no trace of the vehicle’s driver. There was also an empty child’s car seat in the back seat.

Police arrived at the supermarket at about 1:30 p.m. after a worker at Salon Hair Time, which also shares the parking lot with Times, called to report that the man in the vehicle appeared dead.

Ken Luiz—the worker who first reported the body—said a salon customer who parked next to the vehicle asked him to check on the man, whom they initially thought was sleeping.

Luiz said that when he approached the vehicle, the victim was sitting in the passenger seat with his legs crossed and resting on the car’s dashboard. The victim was slouched over and his legs appeared to be turning gray, Luiz said.

"It looks like he’s been there for a while," he said. "He didn’t look too good."

Luiz said he believes the car was likely left in the parking lot between 7 and 8 a.m. yesterday.

After police arrived on the scene, witnesses said the officers knocked on the car’s windows and peered inside the vehicle, but the man was unresponsive. Police and paramedics then shattered the car’s rear passenger window.

Police and the medical examiner remained on the scene until 8:30 p.m. A police detective said the case has been classified as an unattended death, pending further investigation.

Five unidentified people—apparently relatives of the victim—arrived at the scene to speak with detectives and look at the body. After the body was taken by the medical examiner, one of the group drove away with the vehicle.

Police investigators declined to comment on the incident and said the case is still being investigated.