An off-duty Birmingham officer alerted police at about 3:00 p.m. on Monday after someone reported there could be a dead body in an apartment, according to AL.com.

Officers said the body was in a closet inside one of the apartments at 14 Watertown Circle, the website reported.

Police radio traffic heard by AL.com indicated that someone had been asked to help move the dead body, although that was not confirmed by Sgt. Rod Mauldin.

The male victim was found to have suffered no clear signs of trauma, although police are yet to release a full statement about the discovery, according to the AL.com.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service crews then responded to the incident and pronounced the man dead shortly after they arrived.

Sgt. Mauldin told AL.com that three people have been detained in connection with the discovery of the dead body.

Newsweek has contacted the Birmingham Police Department and the Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service crews for comment.

In October, a mother and her boyfriend were arrested and charged in connection with the death of the woman’s 8-year-old son, whose skeletal remains were discovered inside a Houston apartment.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in Houston determined the cause of the child’s death had been “homicidal violence with multiple blunt force injuries.”

Brian W. Coulter, the boyfriend, was charged with murder, while Gloria Y. Williams, the mother, was charged with felony injury to a child by omission and tampering with evidence (human corpse), according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.

The Associated Press also reported three siblings were found abandoned with the remains, but that they were alive.

Deputies who found siblings, aged 15, 10 and 7, said they had been living alone in the apartment and that his parents had not been there for several months.

Sheriff Gonzalez said it appeared the surviving children had been “fending for each other,” with the oldest sibling caring for the other two,

According to the sheriff’s office, the younger siblings appeared to be malnourished and had suffered physical injuries.

In 2019, police in France found the remains of an elderly man in an apartment along with a list of items that indicated he had died in 2008.

When officers arrived, they found the corpse was in a state of natural mummification and declared the death was not being treated as suspicious.