Lewiston police say woman’s death in florist’s parking lot not suspicious

: Lewiston Police Officer’s block off the parking lot at Roak the Florist on Main Street in Lewiston where they were investigating a body found in the parking lot, behind the white screen, early Wednesday morning. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

: Lewiston Police are setting up several screens and blocking off the entire parking lot of Roak the Florist on Main Street after discovering a female body near one of the greenhouses Wednesday morning. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

: Lewiston Police are setting up several screens and blocking off the entire parking lot of Roak the Florist on Main STreet after discovering a dfemale body near one of the greenhouses Wednesday morning. (Russ Dillingham/Sun JOurnal)

LEWISTON — Police ruled that the death of a 57-year-old woman found Wednesday morning in a parking lot off Main Street was an apparent suicide.

The woman was from the greater Lewiston area. Her body was discovered in the parking lot near one of the greenhouses at Roak the Florist.

The Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta was expected to conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death, Lewiston police Lt. David St. Pierre said.

Maine State Police were at the scene collecting evidence, but turned the case over to local detectives before 11 a.m., after homicide was deemed unlikely.