Body found in trunk of burning car in Phoenix

PHOENIX — Firefighters found a body in the trunk of a burning car that police had previously tried to pull over Thursday morning.

Phoenix Police Sgt. Vince Lewis said officers has responded to a call around 3:30 a.m. about someone who had pulled a gun on someone else near Cave Creek Road and Union Hills Drive.

Dead body found in trunk of white car after @PHXFire put out flames. @phoenixpolice investigating it as homicide on Grovers near Cave Creek. pic.twitter.com/ls31x6NIQZ

— Mike Robison (@mrobisonfox10) March 30, 2017

Police said the gun-wielding suspect and another person drove away when they tried to make a traffic stop after the car had been spotted at a gas station.

Officers later found the car abandoned and on fire a few miles away on Cave Creek Road near a dog park in the direction of Bell Road.

Firefighters put out the flames and found the body.

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