Photo: FLLewis/Media City G -- Burbank Police unit
Burbank police investigators now have the identity of the man whose body was found on the I-5 freeway off ramp at Scott Road in Burbank yesterday. This afternoon, Burbank PIO, Sergeant Darin Ryburn ,sent out a news release identifying the victim as Lee Clifford Morris a 55-year-old Alaska Airlines pilot from Richland, Washington. Morris was reportedly “…on a scheduled layover at the time of his death.”
Morris was dressed in civilian clothes with his I.D. on him, when his body was discovered around 6 p.m. on the west side of the freeway off-ramp. Burbank Fire Department paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. There were no signs of foul play, but it’s being treated as a suspicious death, according to the news release. Burbank police investigators are working on the case with the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office.
Also, the coroner’s office is conducting an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.
