Rochester police are investigating what they are calling a suspicious death on the city’s west side.

The Rochester Police Department’s Mobile Command Unit and members of the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office have been near a shed on Orchard Street since 6 a.m.

Police said the victim is a 30-year-old woman with trauma to her upper body, but have not yet released her name. The entire street between Lyell Avenue and Lime Street was blocked off.

The crime scene did not go unnoticed by concerned neighbors.

“It’s terrible. It shouldn’t have had to go down like that, I feel,” said resident Antonio Rivera.

Rivera has lived in the Charles House in the JOSANA neighborhood his entire life, and says the large police presence Sunday was unsettling.

“I feel like this street is getting worse, and I want to change that,” Rivera said.

And he’s not alone.

“It’s kind of shocking because they don’t tell you what’s going on, so it makes you kind of worried about what goes on in the neighborhood that you live in,” said neighbor Jazlin Torres.

Police say they have not ruled the suspicious death a homicide yet, but there have only been two murders in the Broad Street-Lyell Avenue area in the last seven years, according to crime data from the department.

And so far this year, Spectrum News's own Crime Heat map shows only one instance of assault and another of disordly conduct in the area.

But Torres still avoids the area of Orchard Street where the body was found.

“If it’s too early or too late, I don’t walk down there because it’s so dark," Torres said. "And there’s so many little cuts and alleyways and stuff, you don’t know what can pop out.”

An area Rivera says he has been told to stay away from since he was little.

“There’s like a shed over there and they’ve got mad needles on the floor," Rivera said. "And ever since I was little, they keep rising, and rising and rising.”

Police have to wait on the medical examiner’s office to make an official determination, but they want to assure the public there is no danger.

“We feel this is an isolated incident, we don’t feel there’s a threat to any of the community members,” said Lieutenant Naser Zenelovic.

But whatever the cause of death, Torres wants better for her neighborhood.

“I hope they catch who did it, or if it was an overdose or whatever it was, that things change,” Torres said.