Crime & Safety
Man’s Death In Farragut Houses Declared Homicide: Cops
The 44-year-old man's death in the Farragut Houses was declared a homicide, police said.
VINEGAR HILL, BROOKLYN — A man who died Friday after police found him semi-conscious in the Farragut Houses was killed, police said Monday.
Police had been called around 10:40 a.m. Friday to the housing complex — which falls right on the border of Vinegar Hill, Fort Greene and Downtown Brooklyn on Sands Street — for the report of an assault.
When they arrived, officers found 44-year-old Roshee Williams semi-conscious with trauma to his head. He was rushed to Methodist Hospital, but later pronounced dead.
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Police said Monday that the incident has been deemed a homicide.
The medical examiner determined that Williams' cause of death was "blunt force injuries of torso," according to the Office of the Medical Examiner's report.
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No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, police said.
Williams lived in the third floor of the apartment complex, records show.
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