Surveillance footage captured two unidentified suspects transporting a dismembered body to a Bronx train station in a laundry cart—hours before the remains were set on fire and discarded in Yonkers, according to police and law-enforcement sources.
The video shows the suspects maneuvering the cart across East 163rd Street in Longwood, as NYPD detectives work to piece together the details of this gruesome crime.
The situation unfolded around 2 a.m. Monday when firefighters discovered a cart ablaze near the Oak Street Bridge in Yonkers, close to the Mount Vernon border, and a lifeless body on the sidewalk, local authorities reported.
Investigators suspect the suspects transported the body from the Bronx on a Metro-North train, disembarking at the Mount Vernon West station in Westchester County, sources said.
Police later searched an apartment on Rogers Place near East 163rd Street around 11:30 p.m. Monday, where they found severed hands in a crockpot filled with bleach and additional body parts in a freezer, including at least one leg, sources revealed.
Surveillance footage from a deli on the building’s ground floor shows the two figures hastily pushing the cart toward the train station.
Additional photos show the cart being pushed along the sidewalk.
An 18-year-old tenant recalled hearing the cart being moved out of the building late Sunday into Monday morning by “a very angry man.”
“I heard him carrying something heavy down the stairs … like a cart with laundry but with something much heavier,” the frightened woman said Wednesday.
“There was a voice like somebody was mad. I was really scared,” she added. “It was exactly 12 o’clock Sunday, maybe a minute or two after. I know because I was going to go to the deli and my mom said, ‘No, it’s 12 o’clock. It’s too dangerous.’”
The victim’s identity has not been released.
Neighbors described the tenant who lived in the apartment where the remains were found as a long-time resident with “roommates.”
“Yes, we know him,” one woman said on Wednesday. “I see him smoking on the front steps all the time. He is nice, he says, ‘Hi.’
“I liked this place because it was always quiet, and the cameras everywhere,” she said. “And no one can go inside without a key. Yesterday when we heard, I said wow, so we are scared a little bit.”
Yonkers police have handed the investigation over to the NYPD, which now has at least one person of interest in the murder case—but no charges have been filed yet, according to sources.