Overview
- Officers conducting a wellness check just before 1 p.m. at Jay and Tillary streets found an 80-year-old woman and her 52-year-old son unresponsive inside the unit.
- EMS pronounced both dead at the scene, and the bodies were removed from the building by 7:35 p.m., according to a reporter’s observation.
- Authorities noted no apparent trauma and said no criminality is suspected as the Office of Chief Medical Examiner takes over the investigation.
- Neighbors and a responding officer described a strong odor in the building for days, and a resident said maintenance tried masking it with air freshener.
- A doorman said the son routinely visited to care for his mother but had not been seen for two to three weeks.