UPDATE: The body found was confirmed to be Adea Shabani by Nevada County Sheriff’s officials.

Shabani, 25, was an aspiring actress and model that was last seen in Santa Clarita and then North Hollywood on Feb. 23, according to an NBC report released on Tuesday.

The discovery of remains at a site in Nevada County comes amid an LAPD investigation into the disappearance of Adea Shabani, that had returned to headlines last week when the primary suspect in the case shot himself.

Shabani had lived in Los Angeles for less than two years before officials suspect that her boyfriend Christopher Spotz, 33, killed her and then turned gun on himself.

Police said during a news conference on Tuesday that some time after Shabani disappeared, Spotz released a statement through an attorney saying that he and Shabani had been traveling north, they got into an argument and he let her out of the vehicle in Santa Clarita, according to a NBC 4 article.

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However, LAPD couldn’t verify Spotz’s accounts of events and concluded that his version of events could not be true, said Cpt. Bill Hayes, LAPD’s head for the Robbery-Homicide Division.

Nearly a month later, on March 22, Spotz would lead several pursuing law enforcement agencies on a roughly 70-mile high-speed chase that eventually ended when the suspect was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Corona area.

Spotz was declared dead on scene by officials at the Riverside County Coroner’s Office.

In a written statement, the CHP says Spotz had been driving a stolen Toyota Tacoma that had “possibly been used in a homicide which had occurred in Los Angeles County.”

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Both Shabani and Spotz had both studied at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theater in Hollywood.

“We are devastated,” said John Jack Rodgers, the Academy’s executive director. He recalled that she was “growing immensely” in her craft, “She held nothing back.”

Police are awaiting the results of an autopsy scheduled for Wednesday before they officially identify the body. The autopsy will also determine cause of death, which was not immediately apparent, according to the NBC 4 report.

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