Skeletal human remains were found last week in an unused residence hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus, authorities said.
The skeleton was found in the locked, graffiti-ridden building on the Clark Kerr campus on Jan. 10, but it’s unclear how many years the remains were there, police said.
FILE: A view of the UC Berkeley campus is seen from this drone view in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022.
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The building is a residential complex and event space that is approximately one mile from the main campus and has not been occupied for many years.
Police said there are no pending missing person cases from the Berkeley campus community.
College students received an alert from the campus on Friday, KTVU reported.
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An unidentified man who was working in the area when the skeleton was discovered told the outlet that he was not very surprised.
“There is a lot of homeless activity here, so it was an abandoned building, so I thought something like that probably happened,” he said.
The Alameda County Coroner will determine the cause of death. Fox News Digital has reached out to the campus and its police department for updates.
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The university is about 10 miles from downtown San Francisco.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
