Overview
- Workers checking a Longwood apartment reported seeing a foul odor and alerted authorities after they looked into the unit and found an unresponsive man with a knife in his chest; police and EMS later entered and pronounced him dead.
- Investigators have identified a roommate as a strong person of interest and released a last-seen clothing description of a black shirt, dark pants and sneakers; no arrests have been made.
- The victim remains unidentified and his age is unknown, and officials say the state of decomposition will complicate time-of-death estimates and forensic work.
- Police say neighbors reported hearing arguments from the apartment in the weeks before the discovery, and detectives are treating the case as a suspicious death while pursuing leads.
- Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers or submit tips to NYPD channels including the @NYPDTips account so investigators can locate the person of interest and clarify events.