Authorities in New York City are investigating after residents of an East Harlem apartment building made the gruesome discovery of a deceased woman inside a trash compactor room early Friday.
Police said that the victim was a woman in her 30s. Her body showed no signs of trauma. Her cause of death is being determined.
Resident Cheryl Lago recalled the moment she found the dead woman in the second-floor compactor room of her apartment building at 107 E. 126th Street.
It was her friend who alerted her that someone was sleeping in the room, as it was “normal” to occur in the complex.
“When I looked in the compactor room she was dead,” Lago said of the victim. “She looked gray around the face. There was no blood or nothing, and she was naked.”
“She was dead. There was no need to touch her.”
Lago added: “I don't know who this woman was, I never seen her before. It threw off my whole day.”
Elderly resident Deborah Wilson described the incident as shocking.
“There's a lot of drug activity in this building. But I never would have expected anything like that,” Wilson said.
