In television interviews with multiple outlets, family members identified 21-year-old Diomaris Mejia as a woman found dead in her Lawrence basement apartment on Tuesday.
The Essex County District Attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday morning.
Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office and the Lawrence Police Department are investigating the death as “an apparent homicide,” according to a press release Tuesday.
Lawrence Police were called to a basement apartment at 243 Salem St. for a well-being check at about 7:48 a.m. Dec. 26. Officers found an unresponsive person who was pronounced dead at the scene, the press release said.
In interviews with both WCVB and NBC10, family member Nelly Perez identified Mejia as the person found dead. Perez told the outlets that Mejia is from the Dominican Republic and has two children.
