Police investigating after body found in parking lot of Fullerton church

Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was discovered on Sunday afternoon in the parking lot of a Fullerton church.

Officers shortly before 2 p.m. responded to reports of a body in a parking lot near the Commonwealth Avenue and Gilbert Street intersection.

The officers found the body of an elderly woman,  Fullerton police Sgt. Eric Bridges said. The cause of her death wasn’t immediately known and police didn’t say if there were signs of trauma to her body.

Detectives were called to the scene, and were investigating it as a suspicious death, Bridges said. Police do not believe there is a danger to the community, the sergeant added.