The son of a 38-year-old woman who was found dead with a bloody iron next to her head in a Manhattan hotel has revealed that he had been “nervous” in the days before her death.
Denisse Oleas-Arancibia was found in her room by a maid at the SoHo 54 hotel around 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Officers found her unresponsive and unresponsive with trauma to her face, and EMS pronounced her dead at the scene, police said.
Her son, Edwin Cevallos, 18, said the last time he spoke to his mother was the day before her death and said he had noticed something different about her the week before the tragedy.
‘In the week (previous) she was kind of sad. She was very nervous and worried,” Cevallos said. the new york daily news in Spanish, although he is not sure if that had any connection to his death.
Denisse Oleas-Arancibia was found in her room by an employee of the SoHo 54 hotel around 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Cevallos didn’t know what his mother did, but said she left for Manhattan every day at 2 p.m. to do her job while trying to achieve the American dream after arriving here from her native Ecuador, where one of her other children and several other family members are still living.
‘I am in shock. I can’t believe this happened. This is surprising,’ added Cevallos. ‘Everything here in New York reminds me of her. All.’
Cevallos had been living with Oleas-Arancibia and his young nephew in an apartment in Queens, according to neighbors.
“My mom worked very hard,” Cevallos said. ‘She was working all day. She was always working for us to give us the best life in this country.’
He said he was waiting for her to come down Thursday morning and called the police when he still didn’t see her at 1 p.m.
A police officer came to his home shortly after to tell him the tragic news. Oleas-Arancibia came to the United States five years ago and her son followed her to New York two years ago.
‘I want (people to know) that she was always helping people. She was a very good person. She never hurt anyone. She was always paying for everything. She never owed anyone money. She was always looking to help them move forward,” she said.
Oleas-Arancibia (pictured left) was found in her room by an employee at the SoHo 54 hotel around 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Her son, Edwin Cevallos, 18, said the last time he spoke to his mother was the day before her death and said he had noticed something different about her the week before the tragedy.
Cevallos didn’t know what his mother did, but said she left for Manhattan every day at 2 p.m. to do her job while trying to achieve the American dream after arriving here from her native Ecuador, where one of her other children and several other family members still living
Interior of the room where Oleas-Arancibia was found on Thursday
The unidentified victim was found in her room by an employee of the SoHo 54 hotel.
He said his mother – whom he described as happy and always fun – had achieved much of that American dream for him.
‘She wanted a better life because in Ecuador there are many bad people. “It was very dangerous,” she stated. “She gave us the life we always wanted.”
His final interactions with his mother showed that devotion, as she made him breakfast on Wednesday morning and paid a barber to cut her son’s hair.
She told him: ‘Bye, I love you,’ as he left for school that day and made the sign of the cross to her.
Victoria Marinucci, a woman who stayed in the room next to where Oleas-Arancibia’s body was found, described the scene around the hotel.
“The manager was banging and yelling, ‘Hello? Hello? Hello?’ said Marinucci, visiting from L.A. “So there were detectives everywhere.”
The hotel was packed with guests staying there specifically for New York Fashion Week.
‘It was really scary. “We knew the person didn’t make it.”
Victoria Marinucci, a woman who stayed in the room next to where Oleas-Arancibia’s body was found, described the scene around the hotel as very frightening.
The hotel was packed with guests staying there specifically for New York Fashion Week.
No arrests have yet been made and the investigation is ongoing, according to the NYPD.
The victim had been staying at the three-star hotel on Watts Street in Manhattan, near Sixth Avenue, for several days, according to reports.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death, but detectives are proceeding as if it were a homicide.
The woman suffered a cut to her head that detectives believe could have been caused by blunt force trauma.
No arrests have yet been made and the investigation is ongoing, according to the NYPD.
The victim had been staying at the three-star hotel, on Manhattan’s Watts Street, near Sixth Avenue, for several days, the New York Post reported.
The hotel, formerly known as Hampton Inn, has rooms advertised for about $110 a night, according to its website.
SoHo 54 did not immediately respond to a request for comment.