Yonkers Insider: **Yonkers Police News Release: Found Body Investigation**.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8/5/2024 #2024-012.

 

Yonkers Police Department Investigation Into Found Body

Transferred to the New York City Police Department.

 

Yonkers, NY- Just before 2:00 am on August 5, 2024, the Yonkers Police Department responded to the southern sidewalk of the Oak Street bridge, just inside of the jurisdictional border with the City of Mt. Vernon, on a report of a body found.

 

This call originated as a fire at that location. Upon extinguishing the flames, Westchester County Department of Public Safety Police Officers and the Mount Vernon Fire Department reported they had discovered a lifeless body.

 

Upon arrival, Yonkers Police Officers located a body that had been placed in a shopping cart on the sidewalk and apparently set on fire at that location.

 

Due to the location of where this body was found, the Yonkers Police Department initiated a death investigation as the primary investigative agency.

 

Detectives from the Major Case Squad and Crime Scene Unit conducted a thorough investigation at the scene- canvassing the area, processing evidence, and establishing a foundation in the preliminary stages of this investigation.

Later in the day, investigators officially deemed the investigation to be a homicide. Evidence was discovered which determined that while the body was set on fire in the confines of the City of Yonkers, it appeared this was merely a “dump site” and the more appropriate primary investigative agency for this homicide is the New York City Police Department.

As such, this investigation has been turned over to the New York City Police Department and the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office. Any further inquiries and requests for information should be directed to these agencies.