ST. CLOUD – The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating two suspicious deaths in St. Cloud.

St. Cloud police were called just before 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to investigate a report of a deceased woman in an apartment in the 1400 block of 12th Avenue N., according to a news release from Assistant Chief Jeff Oxton.

The victim, Janesa Lashay Harris, 28, lived in the apartment. She had been shot, and her death is being investigated as a homicide.

Officers responded to another suspicious death at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. A woman's body was found in a secluded area by the road in the 4300 block of Cooper Avenue S., just north of Interstate 94.

Oxton said it is unknown whether the two deaths are connected.

JENNY BERG