A mother and son were discovered mummified inside a Brooklyn apartment on Wednesday afternoon \u2014 after residents reported a troubling smell wafting through the building for days, according to sources and authorities.<\/p>\n
The 80-year-old woman and 52-year-old man were discovered by officers who entered the building on the corner of Jay Street and Tillary Street in Downtown Brooklyn for a wellness check just before 1 p.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
A mother and son were discovered mummified inside an apartment building on the corner of Jay Street and Tillary Street in Downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday. LP Media<\/p>\n
The unidentified pair were both found unresponsive, face-up, and their bodies appeared to have been mummified, according to sources.<\/p>\n
EMS pronounced them dead on the scene, authorities said. <\/p>\n
The two bodies were removed from the premises by 7:35 p.m. The Post observed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s actually nasty. I can smell it as soon as I walk out of the elevator. Almost taste it,\u201d a police officer exiting the building said of the horrifying stench coming from the apartment. <\/p>\n
Neighbors recalled smelling the decomposing bodies in the building for days. LP Media<\/p>\n
The son lived nearby, but not in the home with his mother, the building\u2019s doorman, who wished not to be identified, told The Post. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe son always used to come here to take care of his mother,\u201d the doorman said. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen him for maybe two or three weeks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A neighbor across the hall from where the bodies were found noted that the smell of decomposition had been drifting out of the unit \u201cfor days.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would come in waves, and the maintenance would spray like an air freshener,\u201d the neighbor, who also asked not to be identified, recalled.<\/p>\n
There was no apparent trauma to the bodies, and no criminality is suspected as of now. LP Media<\/p>\n
\u201cI just thought it was coming from the trash outside, but it got worse.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city medical examiner will determine the mother and son\u2019s cause of death, police said. <\/p>\n
There was no apparent trauma to the bodies, and no criminality is suspected as of now, authorities added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother and son were discovered mummified inside a Brooklyn apartment on Wednesday afternoon \u2014 after residents reported…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":375641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,5416,14607,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-375640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-human-remains","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115541705070347354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}