BREAKING: Body found outside Riverside business – Investigation remains active at the scene
RIVERSIDE, Calif., — Officials remain active at the scene where a person’s lifeless body was discovered outside a Riverside business this morning. The discovery was made outside the Furniture and Mattress Warehouse, just southwest of the intersection of Indiana Avenue and Tyler Street.
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City of Riverside police and fire personnel were dispatched to the scene after receiving a 911 call reporting the discovery.
Officials remain active at the scene where a person was found deceased outside a Riverside business near Indiana Avenue and Tyler Street this morning. Lee Chow photo
When officials arrived they confirmed finding a subject who was pronounced deceased at the scene.
It was not immediately known what may have led to the victim’s passing.
Photographs from the scene appeared to show a person sitting in an upright position, with their back against the front wall of the mattress store near the business’s entrance.
Officials have not yet released any information about their investigation, which remains active and ongoing at the scene.
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Trevor Montgomery, 50, moved in 2017 to the Intermountain area of Shasta County from Riverside County and runs Riverside County News Source (RCNS) and Shasta County News Source (SCNS).
Additionally, he writes or has written for several other news organizations; including Riverside County based newspapers Valley News, Valley Chronicle, Anza Valley Outlook, and Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle; the Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County; and Mountain Echo in Shasta County. He is also a regular contributor to Thin Blue Line TV and Law Enforcement News Network and has had his stories featured on news stations throughout the Southern California and North State regions.
Trevor spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg, breaking his back, and suffering both spinal cord and brain injuries in an off-duty accident. (Click here to see segment of Discovery Channel documentary of Trevor’s accident.)
During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations; including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, and Lake Elsinore Station; along with other locations.
Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, and Personnel/Background Investigations. He finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator and was a court-designated expert in child abuse and child sex-related crimes.
Trevor has been married for more than 30 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and his “fluid family” includes 13 children and 18 grandchildren.