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Man found dead on Highway 101 in Ventura County

An impromptu memorial has popped up at the Thousand Oaks intersection where a pro-Israeli demonstrator was fatally injured Sunday.
Lance Orozco
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KCLU
Cause of death under investigation, but officers say it doesn't appear to have been from a traffic accident.

CHP are investigating. Officers say it doesn't appear he was involved in a traffic accident.

Authorities are investigating the mysterious death of a man whose body was found on a freeway lane in Ventura County.

The CHP was called to a bridge over Highway 101 near Faria Beach just before 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

They found an elderly man lying in the fast lane of the southbound highway. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers say the initial investigation shows the man wasn’t the victim of a traffic accident.

An autopsy is pending. The name of the man hasn’t been released. CHP investigators are looking for witnesses who may have seen the man on the bridge, or the freeway so they can determine what occurred.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.