What to Know
- Dayo Corley was last seen early Saturday morning; her body was found in her car about 12 blocks from her home Monday afternoon
- No arrests have been made, but police say they don't believe the slaying is random
- Friends and relatives swelled with emotion as they mourned the woman on social media
A missing 43-year-old Queens woman was found dead in a car Monday, the victim of an apparent homicide, authorities say.
Police say Dayo Corley, a mother of two who had last been seen early Saturday near 137th Avenue and Farmers Boulevard, was found unresponsive in the driver's seat of her own car, a black Chevy Equinox, near 122nd Avenue and Lakeview Lane.
She was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say she had two small holes in the back of her head.
The medical examiner has ruled her death a homicide, caused by homicidal violence including sharp force injuries of the neck.
No arrests have been made, but police say they don't believe her killing was random.
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Friends and relatives swelled with emotion as they remembered Corley, a regular worshipper and choral member at St. John's Episcopal Church in Springfield Gardens who touched the lives of many with whom she came into contact.
"She sang with energy. She sang with the spirit. And had the whole church up," the Rev. Cannon Jerrick Rayside at St. John's said Tuesday.
Corley worked as a HR representative for AAA Northeast, according to the company. A spokesman said in a statement, "We are deeply saddened to hear the news. Dayo had a sunny disposition and the brightest smile. She will be missed and our hearts go out to her family and friends."
One Facebook commenter, Katya Ami, said she was 16 when she first met Corley and started working at PNC.
"She treated me as her own daughter," Ami wrote. "She was always there for me during good days and bad days. She was a person that I always we look for an advice. It is very hard to talk about her in the past tense. A good person's actions will always be remembered."
In a Facebook post, the church called her loss "devastating" and offered a biblical verse for comfort: "John 10:28-29 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand."
