2 Bodies Found in Brooklyn Parks in Less than 24 Hours: Police

A medical examiner will determine how the two women died

What to Know

  • Two bodies have turned up in Brooklyn parks in less than 24 hours
  • A woman's body was found early Sunday morning in McCarren Park in Greenpoint
  • Hours earlier, a man walking a dog in Brower Park in Crown Heights came upon the body of a fully clothed woman in the bushes

The bodies of two women have turned up in different Brooklyn parks in less than 24 hours.

Officers responding to a 911 call at around 6:35 a.m. Sunday found an unconscious and unresponsive woman with no obvious signs of trauma inside McCarren Park in Greenpoint, police said.

EMS arrived and pronounced the woman dead at the scene, police said. The woman has yet to be identified.

Hours earlier, a man walking a dog in Brower Park came upon the body of a fully clothed woman in the bushes, police said.

The body, thought to be that of a woman in her 30s or 40s, was discovered at about 2 p.m. in the Crown Heights neighborhood park, investigators said. A cloth covered her face.

Investigators said there were no obvious signs of trauma and are still trying to identify the body.

A medical examiner will attempt to determine the cause of death in both cases.

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