A man\u2019s rotting corpse was discovered wedged inside a couch by a cleaning crew at a Brooklyn home for the mentally ill, according to authorities and sources.<\/p>\n
The cleaning service arrived at the building on Union Street and Utica Avenue in Crown Heights around 8:50 a.m. Thursday \u2014 only for a resident to call the cops on them after mistaking them for burglars, according to the NYPD and sources.<\/p>\n
A man\u2019s rotting body was found wedged inside a couch by a cleaning crew at a Crown Heights home for the mentally ill. Google Maps<\/p>\n
Inside the building at Union Street and Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, where a cleaning crew stumbled upon the skeletal remains of a heavily decomposed man wedged in a sofa. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Police left after realizing the mistake, but returned to the building 30 minutes later after the cleaners made a grim discovery, sources said.<\/p>\n
The crew shockingly stumbled upon the skeletal remains of a heavily decomposed man\u2019s body wedged in a sofa, sources added.<\/p>\n
The building houses mentally ill and disabled residents, according to sources.<\/p>\n
Officers outside the building. It\u2019s not yet known if the man was a victim of a crime, as the Medical Examiner\u2019s office is working to determine his cause of death. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not yet known if the man was a victim of a crime, as the Medical Examiner\u2019s office is working to determine his cause of death.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the finding remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man\u2019s rotting corpse was discovered wedged inside a couch by a cleaning crew at a Brooklyn home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,102,4081,338,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":["post-285552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crown-heights","tag-human-remains","tag-medical-examiners-office","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285552","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=285552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}