NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The circumstances of the body of an 18-year-old South American flight student turning up in the parking lot of Bert Fish Medical Center is unexplained, New Smyrna Beach police said. The body was found 5:30 p.m. in the hospital parking lot, 401 Palmetto St., by a passerby, police said.
Cops had gone to Epic Aviation Flight Academy, 600 Skyline Drive, at the New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport just before noon Thursday in response to a missing person's report two days earlier.
The young man's cause of death and circumstances of his body ending up in the hospital parking lot are part of an ongoing investigation, police said.
The student's name was not released while cops try and contact his relatives.