Body Found Stuffed Inside Suitcase at Oakland's Lake Merritt

Earlier today (10/31), A dead body was found stuffed inside a suitcase at Oakland's Lake Merritt police said. 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." Full story via NBC Bay Area HERE