STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Authorities in New Jersey are investigating the deaths of a Staten Island woman and a Brooklyn man, whose bodies were discovered Sunday in an Atlantic City hotel room.
The woman was identified as 36-year-old Baoyi Bowie Zheng, and the man was identified as 68-year-old Wei Guo Liang, according to a press release issued Wednesday by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office.
Police were called to the hotel room at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa just before 5 p.m., officials said. Autopsies determined that Zheng died from a broken neck and Liang died from self-inflicted stab wounds.
Authorities didn’t describe the relationship between the two individuals.
The woman’s community was not immediately available.
The incident remains under investigation by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office’s Major Crimes Unit and the Atlantic City Police Department, authorities said.
Anyone with information about the fatalities is asked to call the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit at 609-909-7666. Tips also can be submitted on the office’s website at acpo.org. The “submit a tip” form on the website can be filled out anonymously.
Information can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Stoppers by dialing 609-652-1234, or 1-800-658-8477 (TIPS). Or on the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimestoppersatlantic.com/.
Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards for information leading to the arrest and indictment of someone who commits a crime in Atlantic County.