Police officers responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked on a street in Bay Terraces Sunday evening made a gruesome discovery when they opened the car’s trunk and found the bodies of three people inside.

Homicide investigators were called to Jamie Avenue near Doriana Street shortly after 5 p.m. after officers popped the trunk and found the bodies.

Someone had called police to report that a BMW had been parked in the street for two days, said San Diego police Officer John Buttle.

Two of the victims are female and one is male, police said. The condition of the bodies made it impossible to determine the race of each victim. All three appeared to be in their late teens or early 20s, said police homicide Lt. Martha Sainz.


None of the victims has been identified.

The county Medical Examiner’s Office will try to determine the identity of the victims and the manner and cause of death, Sainz said.