NYPD investigating woman's body found in East Village apartment: https://t.co/9tDZEyxloI pic.twitter.com/NfxzGh92ct
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) January 5, 2017
The NYPD is investigating a death that took place in the Wald Houses on Avenue D near Sixth Street.
The body was discovered this afternoon at 1:45.
Per ABC 7:
Police say that a 27-year-old woman was found dead inside an apartment ...
A source tells Eyewitness News that a friend of the victim found the door of the apartment ajar, with a trail of blood leading to the bed.
The victim was found lying on a bed covered with a blanket and a scarf around her neck.
And from the Daily News:
Cops have not yet classified the case as a homicide. The medical examiner’s office will determine how she died. Police have not revealed the victim’s name.
“She was a good person. Innocent. She has a son,” said one neighbor, who knew the woman from the building.
One EVG reader going for a jog in East River Park late this afternoon reported a large police presence near the FDR on the north side of Sixth Street, including officers in riot gear. No more details about this have been reported just yet.
Updated 6:30 a.m.
Police have brought in a man for questioning, according to an updated post at the Daily News.
3:45 p.m.
Part of a report from DNAinfo:
Though the medical examiner has yet to determine the cause of death, Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at a Thursday morning press conference that officers believe Brooke Garcia, 27, died of strangulation before she was found in bed at around 1:30 p.m.
"We don't know what the cause of death is right now — we're assuming it's strangulation, but that's conjecture at this point," said Boyce, who noted an autopsy on the victim's body is still in progress.
17 comments:
So sad and unimaginable :(
To all the know-nothings who post about the Good ole days down on Ave D...These were daily occurrences back then..That and shootings, knifings and torched cars.
Via yesterday's Daily News:
While the rest of the city enjoyed a drop in serious crime last year, the 400,000 tenants of public housing continued to live in a parallel universe where it remains a stubborn problem.
Major crimes in NYCHA developments rose about 2.4% from 5,088 in 2015 to 5,211 last year. That compares with a citywide drop of about 4%. Seven of the city’s nine public housing commands showed increases in serious crime, fueling the overall spike in serious offenses at NYCHA properties.
Murders fell slightly from 50 to 48. But rapes, assaults, burglaries and grand larcenies in public housing all rose from 2015, according to the last available data for the period Jan. 1 through Dec. 25, 2016.
The housing bureau in lower Manhattan, for example, reported an 11.4% spike in serious crime, including a 36% jump in rapes, a 22% rise in robberies and a 44% increase in grand larcenies.
But hey, let's keep bitching about rolled ice cream and those youngin's with their damn phones.
Maybe warehousing the poor in large complexes separated from regular market rent tenants is a bad idea,eh? Every developer should be forced to include affordable housing in their projects.
"To all the know-nothings who post about the Good ole days down on Ave D" - here's a hot flash for ya, Anon. 8:59 - the East Village, then as now, consisted of far more than Avenue D. You are perfectly entitled to your opinions as to how hideous the neighborhood was, but what you are NOT entitled to do is call someone like me, who has lived here for 40 years, a "know-nothing" because I don't agree with you and your memories, and because I preferred the neighborhood the way it was rather than the shiny, soulless shitshow it has become. In another stop-the-presses moment: murders happen all over this city, not just on Avenue D. Pick up a newspaper sometime and read all about it.
Sure, "murders happen all over the city"...but to be more accurate/factual they happen in some areas far more than they happen in others; and the vast majority of the people who live in the higher crime areas I'm certain do not long for these elevated levels of violence to continue.
Sorry to get your undies in a twist, Gojira but the Aves B, C and D were some of the most dangerous streets in the city. I know cause I lived there and I couldnt even get a Police Car down there if I called.
The other side of Ave D still pretty sketchy territory despite a Police presence that can remind you of the West Bank of Palestine. No easy solutions these large Development Complexes of NYCHA have been Urban failures for decades. A modern day version of the Five Points, the Dead Rabbits were at least a colorful name for a gang of pick pockets then. Drug sales today same use of a knife in a homicidal act.The blocks from eight down to six seem to be the usual killing fields last few years at least, every few months something shooting knifing. Oh and yes the people turning their lives around.
Anon. 8:59/2:38, believe me, I know. I live on 11th and B and remember very well the wars between the drug gangs on 11 A-B and B-C, the dealers ripping out the wiring in the streetlights so they could ply their trade in darkness, the time one of the dealers on my block took too much of his own wares and was racing around the sidewalk in nothing but his glasses and a pair of underwear, a .45 in his hand, threatening to kill people (luckily, the block was mostly empty in daylight hours back then), and when I called the 9th - before 911 was implemented - they never even sent a squad car to check it out. But I also remember the night my cat got out and I was wandering around B at 3 AM with a flashlight calling her name, and a bunch of the dealers from the old heroin deli in what's now the Babu Ji space came over to help me look for her, or the time I picked up an old brick from a tree pit for my collection and put it in my bag, only to have a dealer come over to me and ask if I were okay and needed some protection from someone, or the greetings of "Hey Wonder Woman" that I frequently got round the nabe, thanks to my size and long dark hair. Yes there were bad things, lots of 'em, but there were also many good ones, and real connections I made with people and store owners that made living here, for me, something enjoyable rather than something to be looked back on with vitriol.
@Pinch, never said anywhere in my post that I believe people who live in high-crime areas are eager for it to go on. I was simply reacting to yet another post calling anyone who sees the old EV as anything less than the 9th Circle of Hell idiots.
Wrong Gojira, vitriol is the WRONG word. I look back on those days (as others who I have met subsequently) with Morose Sorrow for all of the premature death that I saw.. Lots of Cruel times and wasted people. Dont judge my History and I wont judge your idyllic one.
I heard that the cops like this same dude for the beating of another woman that happened around a week ago.
What police presence? A few towers and lights.
But you DO judge my history, Anon, by calling me a "know-nothing" because I don't agree with your opinion. Soooo...
I'm with you, Gojira. I was here too. Anonymous@8:59AM, no one is nostalgic for murder, okay? You know this. What we miss is the community we had then. Most people on the street were residents, or worked in the neighborhood so there was a strong sense of mutual belonging. Shops were locally owned and long-term. Everyone was a character. Now everyone is a tourist. That's why we Grieve the EV.
Thank you, deva, you said it perfectly. I appreciate the sentiments and the shout-out.
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