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":2,"featured_media":38019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1015,4081,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-38018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-deaths","12":"tag-human-remains","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38018","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=38018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}