Los Angeles Police Department detective who had beens investigating rape allegations against NBA star Derrick Rose died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Officers found LAPD Det. Nadine Hernandez, 44 years old, suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest on Tuesday afternoon in a Whittier home, according to the Whittier Police Department. She was transported to a local hospital where she later died.

Whittier police said Wednesday, “At this time, there are no signs of foul play, and this incident is being investigated as a suicide. However, this is an ongoing investigation.”

A firearm had been recovered at the scene, but it was unclear if it was her service weapon.

In a statement, the LAPD said Hernandez was “among several” detectives assigned to the Rose case.LAPD said,  “At this point there is no indication that her case work had any connection to her death. The Rose investigation will continue unimpeded.”

Whittier police Lt. Steve Dean said that police received a call at 2:45 PM on Tuesday reporting an attempted suicide in the 8400 block of Via Sierra Ramal, .

Hernandez had been taken to PIH Health Hospital in Whittier, where she died at 3:27 p.m., according to Dean and the L.A. County coroner’s department.

News of the LAPD’s investigation of Rose came to light last month as an attorney representing the woman in a civil case against Rose and other men made a last-ditch appeal to a judge to conceal her identity.

The woman’s attorney, Brandon Anand, filed a request, in light of the LAPD’s investigation, asking U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald to reconsider a decision to have the woman identified during trial.

By Prakriti Neogi