By The newspaper
09 Jul 2024, 01:16 AM EDT
Yazmeen Williams has been identified as the woman whose body was left in a sleeping bag on a street in Midtown East, Manhattan (NYC).
According to the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office (OCME), Williams died from a gunshot wound to the head. Her wrapped body was found Friday just before 5 p.m. outside 207 E. 27th St., between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in Manhattan’s Kips Bay neighborhood. Police were initially called to a suspicious package on the sidewalk, but officers arrived to find the 31-year-old woman’s body.
In a video obtained by the Daily News Police were seen yesterday detaining a man and carrying him out of the building on a stretcher as an angry crowd of neighbors shouted insults and blocked the way. No charges have been announced against him. Surveillance video earlier captured a man in a motorized wheelchair dumping the body.
Decomposing body of woman in trash outside NYC building had been shot in head
“He just threw my baby out like garbage,” said the victim’s mother. “This is evil. It’s so evil.”https://t.co/4TX4KI7WeA
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 8, 2024
Investigators were seen yesterday entering and exiting the building around the corner from where Williams was found, although police sources say it is unclear when and where the homicide took place, he said. CBS News.
“He just threw my baby out like she was trash,” said the victim’s mother, Nicole Williams, without identifying the suspect. “This is evil. It’s so evil.”
“He just threw my baby away like trash.”
Authorities are sharing new information about the human remains found in a sleeping bag that had been left on a Manhattan sidewalk for trash pickup a few days ago.
They say the body found in a sleeping bag, which was also bagged, on East 27th Street, is that of a 31-year-old… pic.twitter.com/7Rjh7RFQAK
— Crime In NYC (@CrimeInNYC) July 8, 2024
In general, the discovery of whole or partial bodies in public places is common in New York and nearby areas, and it sometimes takes time to identify the victims.
In May, a human head was found floating in Jamaica Bay, Queens. Earlier that month, a man was found dead floating in waters near the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Lower Manhattan.
Days later, human remains found submerged in a New Jersey creek were identified as those of Charles Murphy, a man who has been missing since 1982, prosecutors said.
In April, a case that had been open for almost 39 years was also closed in New Jersey: the newborn found dead in a bag in a park on Christmas Eve 1984.
Between February 29 and early March, two dissected human bodies were found in wooded areas of Long Island (NY). They were later identified as Malcolm Craig Brown (53) and his partner Donna Conneely (59), and a cousin of his was arrested along with three other people.
In January 2021, human remains were found in a park in Staten Island along with a calendar from 2005. Months later, it was determined that the bones were those of a short man (between 4’11” and 5’5″), possibly Asian or Hispanic, who had been murdered on an unspecified date. But so far, the victim has not been identified and there have been no arrests.
In the fall of 2020, two newborn twins were abandoned dead in a high-traffic residential area in the Bronx (NYC) and more than three years later, no one has been arrested in the case.
Anyone with information on these cases is asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). They can also be reached at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.