Body with gunshot wound found dumped at west Houston trash facility, police say

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Body found dumped at west Houston trash facility, police say
Police said the person who died appeared to have a gunshot wound. Investigators said they're working to figure out who the person is and where the trash truck with the body came from.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A body was found dumped at a Waste Management trash facility in west Houston on Wednesday morning, according to police.

Police said the person who died appeared to have a gunshot wound, but so far, that's all they know.

The body was discovered around 10:10 a.m. Wednesday at the facility along the West Beltway near Westview Drive.

Investigators said they're working to figure out who the person is, and where the trash truck with the body came from.

SEE ALSO: Newborn baby found dead in back of a garbage truck in NW Harris Co., HCSO says

A dead newborn baby boy was found in the back of a garbage truck on Fountaincrest in northwest Harris County Wednesday, the sheriff's office said.

Around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in a northwest Harris County subdivision, a newborn baby boy was found dead in the back of a garbage truck.

According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the baby was anywhere from one day old to 30 days old.

"They got to a point where they had started to repack trash," Sgt. Sidney Miller said of the sanitation workers who found the baby's body. "That's when they discovered the infant in the bottom of the trash can."