Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law has been found dead on a California street next to a five-story parking garage at the age of 64.
Carrie Elizabeth Romney, the sister-in-law of the former Utah Governor and presidential candidate, was discovered lying next to a garage in Valencia, a suburb of Los Angeles, as reported by the local coroner’s office.
Emergency responders reached the location around 8:30 pm on Friday, which is near the town’s shopping mall and a local Hyatt Regency Hotel. The mall is known to close at 9 pm on Fridays.
Local homicide detectives do not suspect any foul play, although sources in law enforcement informed NBC Los Angeles that she might have jumped or fallen from the parking garage.
Footage showing law enforcement’s investigation saw police tape blocking the entrance to much of the scene.
Multiple police vehicles were seen responding to Romney’s death.
Her cause of death was listed as ‘deferred’ while toxicology tests were pending, the Los Angeles County medical examiner.
The investigation is ongoing, The Daily Mail has reached out to the LA County Sheriff’s Department and coroner’s office for comment.
Carrie Elizabeth Romney, who is related to both former presidential candidate and Utah Senator Mitt Romney (pictured with his wife Ann), was found deceased on a street in California on Friday. She was 64.
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office reported her body was found next to a parking garage in Valencia, a suburb of LA. Emergency personnel responded at 8:30 pm on Friday near the town’s shopping mall and a nearby Hyatt Regency Hotel.
Homicide detectives do not currently suspect foul play; however, NBC Los Angeles was informed by law enforcement sources that the deceased might have either jumped or fallen from the parking garage.
The Daily Mail has also reached out to Romney – also the former governor of Massachusetts – who has yet to make a statement.
The two-time presidential candidate comes from a large family, with three older siblings and his wife Ann, who has two older brothers. The couple have five sons.
The Romney family is notoriously close and competitive, with The Washington Post once profiling the then-30 person brood’s annual family Olympics on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.
Similarly, the former governor often championed his status as a family man when he ran for national office in 2008 and 2012.
Mitt Romney’s lengthy career in Republican politics includes a defeat to Barack Obama in the 2012 general election.
In 2008, he lost the Republican Primary before endorsing the eventual presidential runner-up, John McCain.
He was also the only member of his party to vote to convict Trump of impeachment twice.
Romney served as governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and the junior senator from Utah from 2018 to 2024.
Footage showing law enforcement’s investigation saw police tape blocking the entrance to much of the scene
Multiple police vehicles were seen responding to Romney’s death
He retired instead of trying to run for re-election, having said the country’s many challenges call for a younger generation of leaders.
Romney said the U.S. would be better served if the two front-runners for their parties’ 2024 presidential nominations – Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump – stepped aside.
‘The times we’re living in redemand the next generation step up and express their point of view and to make the decisions that will shape American politics over the coming century,’ Romney said in a news conference at the Capitol.
He said baby boomers like him are ‘not the right ones to be making the decisions for tomorrow.’
Romney’s most recent public appearance came at a forum at Drew University in New Jersey in late September.
