Police sources said the NYPD is looking for two people of interest in connection to a body that was found on fire in Yonkers on Monday, and parts of the same body that were found at a building on Rogers Place near East 163rd Street in the Bronx.
NYPD officials said investigators found a gun and drug paraphernalia during a search of an apartment in the building late Monday night, as well as human remains inside a kitchen in the same apartment.
What You Need To Know
- An investigation is underway after a body was found on fire in Yonkers. The NYPD is now in control of the case after parts of the same body were found in the Bronx
- NYPD officials said investigators found a gun and drug paraphernalia during a search of an apartment on Rogers Place in the Bronx late Monday night, as well as human remains inside a kitchen in the same apartment
- The discovery inside the Bronx building came after Yonkers police said officers responded to a location near the Oak Street Bridge near the border of Mount Vernon just before 2 a.m. on Monday for a report of a body found
The discovery inside the building came after Yonkers police said officers responded to a location near the Oak Street Bridge, near the border of Mount Vernon, just before 2 a.m. on Monday for a report of a body found.
That's where Westchester County Public Safety police and Mount Vernon firefighters reported that they had discovered a body in a shopping cart that had been set on fire.
Police said evidence suggests that the body may have been set on fire in Yonkers, but the person may have been killed in the Bronx. Police sources said they have surveillance video of a man seen rolling a shopping cart onto a Metro-North train in the Bronx that appeared to be the same shopping cart that was set on fire.
The NYPD and the Bronx district attorney's office are now leading the homicide investigation.
Anyone with information about the crime is asked to contact the NYPD through their Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.