Woman found dead in car at Mooresville shopping center

A 23-year-old woman was found dead in a car at a shopping center on Brawley School Road on Sunday morning, Mooresville police announced.

Someone called police to report an unconscious person inside a car at the Brawley Commons shopping center just before 9 a.m. Sunday, police said.

When officers arrived, they found 23-year-old Alexandria Leigh McNeely in the car, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

McNeely lived in Mooresville, police said.

Her body was taken to a Winston-Salem hospital, where an autopsy will be performed Monday, police said. McNeely’s cause of death will not be released until the autopsy is done.

This story was originally published December 3, 2017 at 5:40 PM with the headline "Woman found dead in car at Mooresville shopping center."