What to Know
- Police found the body of a man bound with duct tape — with slash marks on his wrists and torso — inside a Bronx apartment Friday evening
- Charles Votaw, 37, has been arrested in connection with the man's death. He lives in the building where the body was found, police said
- Votaw has been charged with assault, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence, the NYPD said
A Bronx resident has been arrested in connection with the death of a man whose body was found slashed and bound with duct tape inside his apartment building, police said.
Charles Votaw, 37, was arrested and charged with assault, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence in connection with the death of the unidentified man, whose body was found inside the building on Creston Avenue where Votaw lives, the NYPD said.
It wasn't immediately clear if the man's body was found inside Votaw's apartment unit or in a different unit. Votaw's attorney information wasn't immediately available Saturday.
Officers received a call reporting a foul smell coming from an apartment in the building on Creston Avenue in the Fordham Heights neighborhood around 2:30 p.m. Friday.
Neighbors say they had been complaining about the awful stench for days, and a man who lives in the building said the odor was permeating through the walls.
They couldn’t get into the home until they finally removed the door around 6 p.m. That's when they found the man’s body inside, police said.
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The man's ankles were bound to his waist with duct tape. He also had slash marks on his wrists and torso, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man has not been identified, and it was not clear if he lived in the apartment building.
The Medical Examiner will determine how he died. An investigation is ongoing.
A man was arrested after bringing a sword to the Empire State Building and acting erratically, police said.
The 35-year-old man went into the Midtown tourist destination with no shirt on and wearing pajama pants, with the sword concealed in a cane, according to police sources.
He was sitting on a bench in the Observatory of the building when he began acting erratically, placing the sword to his chest, law enforcement sources told NBC New York. Police said that he was not causing a threat to others in the area, though video released later Friday evening showed him standing and pointing what appeared to be the sword in the middle of the room. No one was near the man as he did that, however.
As police arrived, the man dropped the weapon and was quickly taken into custody, law enforcement sources said. He was then taken to Bellevue Hospital.
The man has not been identified
