An unidentified person was found dead in Queens on Thursday, and police sources said the body was burned.<\/p>\n
Officers were called just after 4 p.m. to a vacant lot near 139th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica for a report of an unconscious person.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They found the person unresponsive, and EMS pronounced the victim dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An employee at Narrow Security, which is next to the lot, said a coworker noticed something unusual there but didn’t realize it was a body. <\/p>\n
The man named Ruben said they have had concerns about the private property before.<\/p>\n
“The police came several times, and we called the sanitation department, and there was no action taken because it’s private property and nobody can do nothing,” he said. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For resident Mohammed Hossain, a discovery like this is especially jarring because he generally considers this a safe neighborhood.<\/p>\n
“I’m astonished. I haven’t heard anything like that. I’m really shocked,” he said. “There are obviously some small stuff that happens just like any other neighborhood in Queens, but I haven’t heard of anything so disastrous like this before.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The medical examiner is now working to determine how the person died as detectives try to piece together how the body ended up there.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Police are not releasing the victim’s identity until family can be notified.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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