Police investigating after USC student is found dead in apartment near campus

Police are investigating after a USC student was found dead Tuesday in an apartment near campus.

Los Angeles police officers were called about 2:30 p.m. to an apartment complex in the 600 block of West 30th Street, said Jenny Houser, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.

Inside one of the apartments, the officers found the body of a 23-year-old man, Houser said. His name has not been released.

There was “no evidence of foul play,” Houser said. The death is being investigated by the department’s Southwest Community Police Station.

David Carlisle, assistant chief of USC’s Department of Public Safety, confirmed Tuesday that the man was a university student.

Paramedics who were already on the scene when campus police arrived said the death appeared to be a drug overdose, Carlisle said.

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