Overview
- Officers responding to a 911 call around 6:45 a.m. Tuesday found Lydia Marzan unresponsive near Southern Boulevard and East Fordham Road in Belmont.
- Emergency medical workers pronounced the 72-year-old dead at the scene near the garden’s main entrance.
- The Office of Chief Medical Examiner is determining the cause of death as investigators continue their review.
- Police identified Marzan as a Fordham Heights resident who lived on Walton Avenue near East 182nd Street.
- Local reports citing law-enforcement sources describe partial undressing, folded clothing and minor injuries, details not confirmed by officials, and temperatures were about 24°F that morning.