A man found dead inside a car parked in a Barrio Logan neighborhood, causing an odor that alerted neighbors to what police are calling a suspicious death, has been identified.
Witnesses said they noticed the foul smell and found a small pool of blood near a car in the 2900 block of Boston Avenue at about 2 p.m. on Thursday so they called the San Diego Police Department, Lt. Matt Dobbs said.
A few hours later, about 10 San Diego Police Department (SDPD) detectives were briefing behind yellow tape.
Officers could not immediately explain how the man -- identified as 61-year-old Reuben Enrique Aranda of National City -- died so homicide detectives were called, Dobbs said.
Dobbs said SDPD is investigating the death as suspicious out of an abundance of caution.
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"In any suspicious death, we only have one opportunity to document the scene in the event that it were a homicide, so that's why we come out in an abundance of caution," Dobbs explained.
Aranda was found dead inside a 2006 Chevy HHR.
The area near 29th Street and Boston Avenue was closed to traffic for several hours as police conducted their investigation.
