Someone made a grim find in a South Coast alley.
A passerby spotted the battered body of a man on the 800 block of Cooper Road in Oxnard at about 5:30 Friday morning.
Paramedics were called, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. Oxnard Police say he was in his mid-20’s. His name hasn’t been released yet.
An autopsy is pending. It’s the ninth murder this year in Oxnard.