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.
The former presidential candidate and Utah Governor’s sister-in-law, Carrie Elizabeth Romney, was found lying next to the garage in the Los Angeles suburb of Valencia, according to the local coroner’s office.
First responders arrived on the scene at around 8:30pm on Friday near the the town’s shopping mall and a local Hyatt Regency Hotel. The mall closes at 9pm on Fridays.
Foul play is not suspected, according to local homicide detectives, though law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles that the deceased may have jumped or fallen from the parking garage.
The investigation is ongoing, The Daily Mail has reached out to the LA County Sheriff’s Department and coroner’s office for comment.
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.
Mitt Romney’s lengthy career in Republican politics includes a defeat to Barack Obama in the 2012 general election.
Carrie Elizabeth Romney, the sister-in-law of former presidential candidate and Utah Senator Mitt Romney (pictured with his wife Ann), was found dead on a California street Friday. She was 64
According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, she was found lying next to a parking garage in the LA suburb of Valencia . First responders arrived on the scene at around 8:30pm on Friday near the the town’s shopping mall, near a local Hyatt Regency Hotel
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.
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.
This is a developing story.
