Police are scouring New York City for a killer on the loose after a resident stumbled upon a woman’s body wrapped in a garbage bag on a busy sidewalk last week.
New York Police Department officers responded to a report of a suspicious package among the trash in front of 27th Street and Third Avenue in Kips Bay on the East Side of Manhattan shortly before 5 p.m. Friday.
“Emergency medical services responded and pronounced the patient deceased at the scene,” the department told DailyMail.com.
‘Based on an ongoing investigation, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that the person discovered was a 31-year-old woman who suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was deemed a homicide on July 7, 2024.
“There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.”
Police are searching for a killer on the loose in New York City after a resident stumbled upon a woman’s body wrapped in a garbage bag on a busy sidewalk last week.
Police identified the body as that of a 31-year-old woman. They did not give her name.
The New York Police Department said officers responded to a report of a suspicious package in front of 27th Street and Third Avenue in Kips Bay on the East Side of Manhattan shortly before 5 p.m. Friday.
Rian Robbins, the passerby who was unlucky enough to make the chilling discovery, said she was suspicious about the package because there were flies buzzing around it.
“I walked by and turned around. There were flies everywhere. And I saw what looked like a rib cage,” Rian Robbins said. New York Subway.
They were cleaning the building, so I thought maybe it was some old stuff they had thrown away.
Robbins said the body was found lying on what appeared to be a cart. “It was on a rolling cart that was tied to the thing,” Robbins said.
“It was big and swollen like it had been in water.”
Officials told amNewYork Metro that they believe the body had been lying on the street for some time because other residents had reported a stench in the area.
Horrified onlookers inside a nearby building also filmed disturbing video of detectives cutting open the body bag in the street.
Police identified the remains as those of a 31-year-old woman. Her name has not yet been released.
A horrified woman stumbled upon a human body wrapped in a garbage bag on a New York City sidewalk on Saturday, police said.
NYPD officers cordoned off the area while forensic teams combed the scene where the body was found.
Authorities said a woman made the gruesome discovery at 27th Street and Third Avenue in Kips Bay on Manhattan’s East Side shortly before 5 p.m. Friday.
NYPD officers cordoned off the area while forensic teams combed the scene.
The investigation is ongoing and no arrests have yet been made.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the New York Police Department or Crime Stoppers.
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