Police investigate death of person in burned van

10/28/2005

TECUMSEH, Mich. Authorities are continuing their investigation into the death of a person found in a burned vehicle Wednesday morning in Lenawee County s Ridgeway Township.

They declined to release the name of the victim pending notification of relatives.

Passers-by discovered the victim at 8 a.m. in a van at Prielipp Farms on South Downing Highway, several miles southeast of Tecumseh.

They drove the victim, who had suffered burns from a fire of unknown origin, to University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, where the victim died Wednesday night, deputies said.