A sister-in-law of former U.S. Sen. and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was found dead Friday night in a Valencia parking garage, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Authorities responded at about 8:30 p.m. Friday after receiving reports of someone dead inside the garage in the 24500 block of Town Center Drive in the community north of Los Angeles. The woman jumped or fell from a five-story parking structure and died at the scene, law enforcement sources told NBC4 Investigates.

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The garage is near the Hyatt Regency hotel.

She was identified by the medical examiner's office as 64-year-old Carrie Elizabeth Romney. No cause of death was listed Monday afternoon.

The death does not appe

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