Updated at 4:53 p.m.
Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found Tuesday night in a vehicle pocked with apparent bullet holes in St. Johnsbury.
The woman has been “tentatively” identified and her body was taken to the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington, Vermont State Police said in a press release Wednesday afternoon.
Police are not releasing the woman’s name until an autopsy, set for Thursday, is completed.
A passerby called police at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday to alert them to a person who was slumped over inside the vehicle in the area of 510 Portland St., according to a state police press release issued Tuesday night.
Officers who arrived on scene confirmed the woman was dead.
State police investigators spent Wednesday interviewing witnesses and speaking with neighbors to try to find any video evidence, they said in Wednesday afternoon’s update.
“As a part of this investigation, two individuals have been detained on unrelated, out-of-state warrants,” police wrote in that release. “No further information about these individuals is available.”
An initial investigation showed that “this was an isolated event with no identified threat to the community,” police said in the Tuesday release.
