HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) The body of a 45-year-old woman has been found inside a Hartford apartment.

Hartford police say they were sent to the apartment on Hanmer Street just after 1 p.m. Monday to conduct a well-being check, and found the body of the woman inside.

The department's major crimes unit is investigating, and Lt. Brian Foley says the department is treating the case as a suspicious death.

The woman's name has not been released, and Foley says the cause of her death is not known. The body has been sent to the medical examiner's office in Farmington for an autopsy.