Crime & Safety

John Doe Found Unconscious In Bronx Street ID'd As Westchester Man

The case drew interest from missing persons investigators as far away as Texas, but police say the mystery man is from the Hudson Valley.

Police issued a nationwide alert in an attempt to identify the man discovered unconscious in the middle of a Bronx street.
Police issued a nationwide alert in an attempt to identify the man discovered unconscious in the middle of a Bronx street. (NYPD)

YONKERS, NY — NYPD has learned the identity of a man found in the middle of a Bronx street on Friday.

Police have not publicly named the man who was rushed from the area near University and Reservoir Avenues to Montefiore Hospital at just after 6:30 in the morning. Officials announced on Wednesday that the "John Doe" has now been identified as a Yonkers resident.

Investigators initially had no idea who the man was. He had no identification on him, according to police who said he had no obvious injuries, but he remained unresponsive and in critical condition in the hospital as of Tuesday.

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"This individual has been identified as a man from Yonkers," NYPD officials said in a statement released on social media on Wednesday. "His family has been notified."

The Texas Attorney General’s Office had contacted police in New York about the man, according to New York City's WPIX11 News. Some investigators thought the man might be a college student who’d gone missing in Texas, but law enforcement sources later told the television station that it was not him after all.

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