Woman found shot dead after days in Walgreens parking lot

DeLand police identified a woman found shot to death in a car of a Volusia County Walgreens parking lot on Tuesday.

Deputy Chief Adam Kisthardt of the DeLand Police Department spoke to the media Wednesday with an update in the homicide investigation of 36-year-old Latosia M. Warren. He said police don’t believe the killing was random.

Kisthardt said Warren’s body was found inside a vehicle on Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. in the lot located at the intersection of East New

York Avenue and South Amelia Avenue. Police believe the vehicle had been there since Sunday morning.

Kisthardt said police were checking available cameras in the area seeking footage of the car entering the Walgreens parking lot.

Warren’s body wasn’t discovered between Sunday and Tuesday because of how she was positioned inside the vehicle, he said.

“The way Ms. Warren was seated in the vehicle, she was not very conspicuous from the outside of the vehicle,” Kisthardt said. “It seemed like nothing out of the ordinary to a passerby who might’ve been in the parking lot.”

He said they don’t have an address for the victim, and she wasn’t known to the police department. They believe she was from out of town and traveled “some distance” to be there. Warren’s body was found in someone else’s car, and DeLand police were made aware of the body through a citizen reporting it.

DeLand police later identified Robert Fleming, 36, as a suspect in the case, wanted on one charge of first-degree murder.

The medical examiner’s office is doing their own investigation, but has yet to determine a time of death.