VIRGINIA — Police in Newport News are investigating after a body was discovered behind a local hospital Monday afternoon.
According to the Newport News Police Department, officers were dispatched around 2:24 p.m. on April 6 to the 12000 block of Warwick Boulevard for a water-related emergency.
Authorities said a contractor reported seeing what appeared to be an unconscious person in Lake Maury, located behind Riverside Regional Medical Center. When officers and medics arrived, they found a person in the water who was pronounced dead at the scene…