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Authorities in Arizona have identified a body found burning in a fire pit near Apache Junction when a teenager was reported missing earlier this month.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said the body found June 12 in an off-road vehicle area in Bulldog Canyon was missing 18-year-old Parker League, according to FOX 10 Phoenix. Bulldog Canyon is about an hour from Phoenix.
League was visiting Tempe, Arizona, from Nebraska when he was reported missing by a relative on June 15, FOX 10 reported, and his belongings were found in a home in Tempe.
His death was described as “malignant” and is being investigated as a homicide, the MCSO said.
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Maricopa County deputies said the 18-year-old was visiting Tempe, Arizona, from Nebraska when he was reported missing on June 15. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The find has residents who live in the area in question.
“Just knowing that they found a body in a fire pit is really scary and really sad, and it’s hard to feel safe,” resident Amber Kunau told FOX 10. “That’s breaking new ground for here, we’ve seen a lot of stuff.”
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Neighbors told the media outlet that they witnessed activity in the remote desert near where the body was found.
Arizona authorities said Parker League’s body was discovered burning in a fire pit near Apache Junction. (iStock)
“There are needles and all sorts of other things. We’re just tired of it,” resident Sharon Allison-Brown told the outlet. “They just come here and dump and there’s trash everywhere.”
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She added: “We live here because of the serenity. We can’t have that serenity with all this commotion. Now we have a corpse.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Tempe Police Department for comment, but received no immediate response.
