Police were questioning a woman who reported finding the decomposing body of a man in the trunk of her Lexus. John Cádiz Klemack reports from Riverside for the NBC4 News at 11 on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014. (Published Sunday, Sep 14, 2014) 
 
 Riverside police said a woman who reported finding a body decomposing in the trunk of her Lexus after she noticed the smell in the parking lot of a Southern California Walmart Saturday was not considered a suspect in the case. 
 
 The body was identified as 33-year-old Miguel Angel Perez. 
 
 The woman called 911 about 4:40 p.m. from the store at 5200 Van Buren Blvd. to report that she had discovered a dead man in her car trunk. 
 
 Investigators said the Pomona resident knows the victim and questioned her about her relationship with him and the circumstances surrounding the discovery. Police had earlier considered the woman a person of interest in the case, but later said she was not a suspect. 
 
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 "(It's) very unusual, I mean, it's a one-of-a-kind," said Riverside Police Sgt. Dave Amador. "We do get bodies in trunks, but when they open it up and say they know them and didn't know they were in there, that's unusual." 
 
 Amador said it was unclear how the man died. Investigators could not provide an estimate as to how long the man may have been in the trunk. 
 
 "It's hot out so it's hard to say how long it'd been there," Amador said. "It won't take long for a body to decompose in this weather." 
 
 Pomona police were called to assist in the investigation because the woman lives with her husband in Pomona. However, Riverside investigators confirmed the victim is not the woman’s husband. 
 
 ||||| RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) — The body of a man was found inside a trunk of a car outside a Walmart in Riverside. 
 
 The body was reportedly found inside a gold Lexus GS 300 around 4:45 p.m. outside the store located in the 5200 block of Van Buren Boulevard. 
 
 The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said the victim was likely killed in Pomona, where the car owner lived. 
 
 Witnesses told KCAL9’s Adrianna Weingold the woman was freaking out about recognizing the dead man as her neighbor. 
 
 Detectives from the Pomona Police Department have taken over the investigation. They would not confirm how the woman knew the dead man. 
 
 The Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner was expected to determine the victim’s identity and conduct an autopsy. 
 
 Weingold said detectives were working the scene hours later trying to determine how the body got inside the car. 
 
 She reported that a shopper went to put bags in her car when she made the gruesome discovery. 
 
 The woman told police she smelled something funny — all day — but was shocked to find a body in the trunk. 
 
 “She was freaking out,” said witness Robert Lugan, “they had to put her in a squad car and take her home.” 
 
 Police would not confirm how long the dead man might have been in the trunk. 
 
 “He was around the neighborhood last night,” said witness Lugan,”and the husband didn’t like it. Told him to leave. And now she saw her neighbor in the trunk.” 
 
 “It’s hot out so it’s hard to say how long the body had been there, it won’t take long for a body to decompose in this weather,” said Sgt. Dave Amador with the Riverside Police Department. 
 
 “It’s very unusual,” Sgt. Amador said, “it’s one of a kind. I mean, we do get bodies in trunks. But to open it up and say they know him. And didn’t know they were in there, that’s unusual.”
– A California woman says she has no idea how a dead body wound up in the trunk of her Lexus. The Riverside woman says she'd thought the car smelled funny as she left work yesterday, but she stopped at Walmart thinking nothing of it. When she opened the trunk to put her shopping bags inside, she made the gruesome discovery. "She was freaking out," one witness tells CBS 2. "They had to put her in a squad car and take her home." Witnesses say the woman recognized the man as a neighbor. "He was around the neighborhood last night," one witness says, "and the husband didn't like it. Told him to leave. And now she saw her neighbor in the trunk." Police initially considered the woman a person of interest and questioned her, but they now say she isn't a suspect, NBC LA reports. "It's very unusual," one police sergeant says. "I mean, we do get bodies in trunks. But to open it up and say they know him. And didn't know they were in there, that's unusual."