Police are investigating the discovery of a body inside an abandoned vehicle Tuesday in east Birmingham.

Officers responded to a field in the 8400 block of Fifth Avenue North in East Lake shortly before 8:30 a.m. A citizen called 911 to report the abandoned vehicle.

When officers and Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service arrived, they discovered the body of a female inside. She was pronounced dead on the scene

Neighbors said the vehicle had been in the field for at least two days. The field is just off an alley between Fourth and Fifth Avenues.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said the death is being investigated as a homicide.

The victim is the city’s 34th homicide in 2023, and the third to take place since Monday.

Of the city’s homicides this year, one was an officer-involved shooting by an outside agency and three others have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.

In all of Jefferson County, there have been 46 homicides including the 34 in Birmingham.

Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.