TOMS RIVER — The death of an 18-year-old Brick woman found dead this week at a township motel has been labeled suspicious, investigators said Wednesday.
The woman?s lifeless body was found in a room at the Red Roof Inn on Water Street on Tuesday morning, but investigators still don?t know what caused her death, said Capt. Jack Sramaty, a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor?s Office.
The woman?s identity has been withheld by police.
Sramaty said the woman?s death is ?considered suspicious? and investigators with the prosecutor?s Major Crimes Unit are trying to find out all of the circumstances surrounding how she died.
?Anytime someone that young dies, the death is labeled as suspicious,? Sramaty said.
An autopsy was performed on the woman later Tuesday, Sramaty said.
He said the exact cause of her death won?t be determined until investigators get back toxicology results.
?It could take as long as two weeks,? Sramaty said.
He declined to discuss whether the death may have been drug-related.
?We don?t know what this is right now,? Sramaty said.
The woman was found by township police after they received a call to check on the woman?s well-being at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Inn on Water Street, according to Police Chief Michael G. Mastronardy.
?Police got a call from someone who was concerned and asked us to go check on her,? Mastronardy said.
Mastronardy said the Prosecutor?s Office and Toms River Police are continuing to investigate the death along with the Ocean County Sheriff?s Department and Detective Randy Petrick.
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