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Woman's body found on highway onramp in Santa Barbara

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
An impromptu memorial has popped up at the Thousand Oaks intersection where a pro-Israeli demonstrator was fatally injured Sunday.

Body was just off busy roadway.

Authorities are investigating the discovery of a woman's body next to a freeway onramp in Santa Barbara.

A passerby spotted the body just after 6 p.m. Wednesday, on the Highway 101 Milpas Street onramp, and called 911.

CHP officers, and Santa Barbara firefighters responded to the scene, and determined that the woman was dead. The woman hasn't been identified yet. An autopsy is pending. Because of where the body was found, the CHP is handling the investigation.

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.