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By Miriam Raftery
Photo courtesy ECM news partner 10 News
January 5, 2016 (San Diego’s East County) -- The naked, partially decomposed body of a man was swept downstream in a storm drainage channel from El Cajon to Santee.
“His death was definitely not related to today’s rains,” Lee Swanson, public information officer at San Diego Fire and Rescue told East County Magazine. Swanson said it was evident that the man had died days or more before to the current storm. His identity is unknown.
El Cajon Police Department notified the Sheriff’s Department of the body spotted floating in the swift-flowing storm waters. The Sheriff’s Department contacted San Diego Fire Department, which sent a swift water rescue team of San Diego Lifeguards to recover the body.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the body appeared to be a man approximately 40 years old.
El Cajon Police had received a report of a body in Forrester Creek a week or more ago, but could not locate it. Today ECPD received multiple calls reporting a body in the drainage canal at Cuyamaca and Bradley near Gillespie Field before heavy rains washed it downstream to Santee.
If you have any information on the possible identity of the victim, contact the El Cajon Police Department.
It is unclear whether the man died of natural causes, an accident or foul play. An autopsy is pending by the County Medical Examiner to determine the cause of death.
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