Missoula police investigate after woman found dead outside St. Patrick Hospital

The Missoula Police Department shut down the 500 block of West Broadway for 30 minutes Saturday afternoon as officers investigated the death of a 53-year-old woman. Authorities responded to reports of an unresponsive adult female at around 8 a.m. Saturday morning outside St. Patrick's Hospital. They located the body near the southwest corner of the Broadway building, officials said. Blood was found at the scene, but there were no foot tracks in the freshly fallen snow. Investigators said she was homeless, and that she had been in Missoula for at least a month. Sergeant Colin Rose said they shut down West Broadway to search for evidence.