Deputies investigate body found at Porters Neck gas station

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office has begun a death investigation after a woman was found dead inside a car at a gas station.

Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Jerry Brewer says the woman’s body was found in a car in the parking lot of the C Store at the corner of Porters Neck Road and Market Street around 6:45 a.m.

Brewer could not provide any more information at this point in the investigation.

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