Police Unsure How Man, Woman Died at Parked Truck

Gwinnett Police are treating the discovery of two dead bodies in unincorporated Lawrenceville as a homicide case, although the cause of dead was not immediately known.

Police spokesman Cpl. Jake Smith said in a media release Friday afternoon that police found the dead bodies of an adult man and adult woman around 11:20 a.m. at a red pickup truck parked on Service Drive near the intersection of New Hope Road and Sugarloaf Parkway. Officers responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle at the site; the caller thought the vehicle might be illegally dumping trash on the dead end road.

Smith said police found the bodies of a white man inside the truck and a white woman just outside the vehicle.

The causes of death was not immediately apparent, Smith reported. The bodies were removed and the Gwinnett Medical Examiner’s office was expected to perform an autopsy. The truck is being examined by the Crime Scene Investigation Unit.

Investigators are treating the case as a homicide, unless evidence shows otherwise, Smith said.