Corpse of Hispanic woman found in apartment of ex-convict with a bag over his head in New York; NYPD had been there days before

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Geza Hay was charged as a suspect in the death of Norayshma Fernández, a 34-year-old woman whose body was found decomposed in an apartment in the Bronx (NYC) with a plastic bag wrapped around her head. two months ago.

There was no relationship between the two. according to NYPD. But the body was found the night of May 7 in the suspect’s apartment on Ogden Ave. near W. 167th St., vecindario Highbridge, after a neighbors complaint about a bad smell.

Fernández She lived in a shelter at the “Stadium Hotel” on Sedgwick Ave., about a half-mile from the apartment where she was found. It was unclear what she was doing at the scene where she was found dead or if the body was moved from somewhere else.

When officers arrived, they found Fernandez’s body face down on the floor of a bedroom wrapped in a blue and white comforter and with a bag over his head. She had been dead for several daysbut the exact time of the crime has not been determined.

Just a week earlier, on April 30, Hay (46) had been arrested in that apartment after throwing a large knife at police. responding to calls from an emotionally disturbed man, narrowed Daily News.

Responding officers that day were forced to cut a hole in the wall when Hay barricaded himself inside a bedroom. Officers apparently did not notice Fernandez’s body, because it was apparently well hidden, the sources said.

After that arrest, Hay was transported to Rikers Island and was therefore not home when police were called about the odor a week later. Previously There had been paroled in September 2021 for a charge of strangulation.

He has now been charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in the Fernandez case. According to the forensic report, He died of “homicidal asphyxiation”.

The victim’s mother, Jackelinane Santiago, who lives in Orlando, Florida, said that he last spoke with his daughter on the night of April 29 and that he often sent her money, even to cover her phone bill.

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