Body Found Inside Lakeside Home

The property was sealed off with crime tape while investigators collected evidence into the early morning hours of the next day.

The body of a man found inside a Lakeside home has launched a homicide investigation involving the San San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Border Patrol.

Deputies received a call Tuesday at 10:38 a.m. asking for help after the man’s body was found inside the home at 11461 Rocky Lane in Lakeside.

The scene appeared suspicious to deputies and so they called in homicide investigators.

The property was sealed off with crime tape while investigators collected evidence into the early morning hours of the next day. Neighbors told NBC San Diego that the house is a rental home.

The identity of the victim hasn’t been released.

Investigators from the Santee Sheriff's Station, Sheriff’s Homicide Detail and Crime Lab, as well as the U.S. Border Patrol are participating in this investigation.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Homicide Detail at (858) 974-2321.

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