Local News in Brief : Garden Grove : Man Found Slain in Twin Lakes Park
An unidentified man was discovered dead in Twin Lakes Park on Tuesday, and police were investigating the death as a homicide.
Garden Grove park workers first saw the man about 7:20 a.m. lying on the grass at the park on Lampson Avenue near Haster Street.
“They initially thought the subject was just a transient sleeping there,” Police Lt. John Woods said. “But when they came back about 9:30 a.m., they saw him in the same position, made contact with him and realized he was dead.”
The man was described as a white male, 20 to 30 years old, between 5 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 165 to 170 pounds, with dark brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing two small earrings in his left ear.
Police would not say how the man was killed.
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