Glassboro Police and the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office are investigating a death that occurred near a parking garage on Rowan Boulevard in Glassboro Monday morning.

Rowan University spokesman Joe Cardona said he could not confirm the age or gender of the victim, whose body was found near the parking garage next to Barnes and Noble on Rowan Boulevard. The incident happened around 6 a.m. Cardona also could not confirm whether the person was a student.

"It's being investigated as a suicide," Frank Brown, chief of Glassboro police told NJ Advance Media. "The first thought we have is with the people that were left behind, the family, friends. ... It's just a heartbreaking thing."

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