Woman's Body Found Partially Clothed On Sidewalk In Midwood, Brooklyn
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A person made a gruesome discovery while walking to work Thursday morning in Brooklyn.
Police sources said a woman was found laying unconscious and unresponsive on the sidewalk in front of a home on Olean Street in Midwood around 6:30 a.m. EMS arrived and pronounced the woman dead.
Police sources said she was identified as a 23-year-old woman from the Bronx, her name was being held until her family could be notified.
Officials said she had no money and no identification on her. Her pants were down and her chest was exposed, police sources said.
Investigators are still trying to determine how she died. There were no obvious signs of trauma on her body, aside from a bloody nose and mouth, police sources said.
Sam Friedman said he didn't hear anything out of the ordinary before detectives knocked on his door. Police had no reports of screaming or fighting in the area.
"It was right here on the sidewalk between the curb and my garage," he said.
"I jumped back. There was a dead woman laying there. I've never seen a dead person before," added neighbor Dave Fischer.
Friedman believes the woman was killed elsewhere, and dumped here.
"We would hear some commotion, we would hear screaming, yelling, and I'm a very bad sleeper, so I would have heard," he said.
A neighbor came outside when he heard the police sirens and saw the body.
"I'm very shocked. I've lived in this area for 38 years, I never heard anything like that happening in this area. Ever," Midwood resident Oleg Tokar said.
"I just woke up this morning, saw all the commotion. It's shocking, I've lived in this house 20 years. Never seen anything like it," said Midwood resident Matthew Cohen.
Police were searching for surveillance video along the block and trying to determine how and when the woman died.
