An investigation is underway in New Jersey after a a 34-year-old woman was found dead in an Atlantic City home over the weekend, officials announced

Authorities were called to the residence along Sheridan Avenue on Saturday just after 10 a.m., according to a statement released by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office on Monday. When they arrived at the home, officers found an “unresponsive female,” who has since been identified as Christina Burdette. She was pronounced dead on the scene.

Her family members told PHL 17 that Burdette’s body was covered in bruises and that her head had been wrapped in gauze — almost as though she’d been in a fight.

Burdette’s death is being investigated as a homicide but the cause is still not clear.

“She was beautiful, ” her, mother, Stephanie A

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