An L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau official said the investigation into a body found in a mall parking lot Wednesday is being treated as a suicide.
The decedent, whose identification was released Thursday, was Jeffrey Koons, a 47-year-old man who was identified as an “unhoused individual,” according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office.
An autopsy had not yet been made for the official confirmation as of Thursday morning, according to Lt. Michael Modica of the Homicide Bureau. He said the initial determination was made by the detectives and the medical examiners who first arrived on the scene…