Woman's Decomposing Body, Man With Dementia Found In Inwood Building, Police Say

INWOOD, NY — Police discovered a woman's body and a man suffering from dementia while examining an Inwood building this weekend.

Police responded to the building on Seaman Avenue near Academy Street around 6:30 a.m. Saturday to follow up on reports of a foul smell, an NYPD spokesman told Patch. When officers checked the building they found a 73-year-old man in the building's living room and the decomposing body of a 63-year-old woman in another room, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

The man was incoherent and suffering from dementia, police said. When he was found, he was sitting in his own urine and feces and was transported to an area hospital for examination, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

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The city medical examiner will investigate the 63-year-old woman's death, police said. The woman was pronounced dead on the scene by first responders and had apparently been dead for a few days, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

Neither the man or woman's identities were released, police told Patch.

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