{"id":223677,"date":"2026-05-07T19:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/223677\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:26:03","slug":"autistic-man-25-found-stranded-with-dads-decomposing-body-in-brooklyn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/223677\/","title":{"rendered":"Autistic man, 25, found stranded with dad&#8217;s decomposing body in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mentally disabled 25-year-old man was found stranded with his father\u2019s decomposing body inside a trash-filled room in Brooklyn Wednesday, according to neighbors and the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>The older man\u2019s lifeless body was found inside a single-family home on Brighton Seventh St. near Ocean View Ave. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/13\/noreaster-claims-nyc-fatality-as-brooklyn-woman-killled-by-flying-solar-panel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton Beach<\/a> shortly before 11 a.m., fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The home where he was found had been subdivided into roughly a dozen apartments spread across the house\u2019s two floors. Sintokh Singh, a 55-year-old neighbor who lives in the house, said he called 911 after the smell coming from the dead man\u2019s unit became unbearable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last two or three days he didn\u2019t come out of the room,\u201d Singh said. \u201cThe smell was bad, really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"An unidentified man was found dead in a single-room apartment buried under a heap of garbage in a house located on Brighton Seventh St. in Brooklyn on May 6, 2026. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"4032\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4188.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"12874522\" \/>An unidentified man was found dead in a single-room apartment buried under a heap of garbage in a house located on Brighton Seventh St. in Brooklyn on May 6, 2026. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers found the son trapped with his dead dad\u2019s body after forcing open their apartment door, Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was so much garbage inside, when they broke the door in, his son\u2019s head popped out from all the trash,\u201d said Singh. \u201cHe was scared. He hadn\u2019t eaten in a couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"An unidentified man was found dead in a single-room apartment buried under a heap of garbage in a house located on Brighton Seventh St. in Brooklyn on May 6, 2026. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3024\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4185.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"12874523\" \/>An unidentified man was found dead in a single-room apartment buried under a heap of garbage in a house located on Brighton Seventh St. in Brooklyn on May 6, 2026. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was all garbage and bottles. There was no room inside. Just garbage and bottles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medics transported the 25-year-old autistic man to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/south-brooklyn-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Brooklyn Health<\/a> for treatment, according to fire officials. His condition was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"An unidentified man was found dead in a single-room apartment buried under a heap of garbage in a house located on Brighton Seventh St. in Brooklyn on May 6, 2026. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3024\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_4186.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"12874524\" \/>An unidentified man was found dead in a single-room apartment buried under a heap of garbage in a house located on Brighton Seventh St. in Brooklyn on May 6, 2026. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singh said the man lived alone with his disabled son, who required round-the-clock care and supervision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis son was very disabled,\u201d the neighbor said. \u201cHe cannot speak, he cannot change his diaper. His father has to shower him. His father has to do it all for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(My neighbor) was a very friendly guy,\u201d Singh added. \u201cHe loved his son. his whole life was his son.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mentally disabled 25-year-old man was found stranded with his father\u2019s decomposing body inside a trash-filled room in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7199,98,100,99,262,263,2953,85,607,9,24,12,63,3851,530],"class_list":["post-223677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-area","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-health","tag-latest-headlines","tag-national-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-region","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}