Sheriff: Woman’s body found in suitcase alongside river

RALEIGH, NC (AP) — A North Carolina sheriff’s office says a woman’s body has been found inside a suitcase near a river.

Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker says a witness contacted Raleigh police Monday morning and reported seeing a body along a section of the Neuse River Trail.

The case is being investigated as a homicide.

A cause of death wasn’t immediately released. Baker declined to say whether the body is that of 28-year-old Brittany Samone Smith, a pregnant woman who was reported missing Thursday.

Baker says the investigation is ongoing.