mobanmarketBROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn man hid a dead body inside an East Flatbush apartment building, police said.
Reginald Newkirk, 51, faces a concealment of a human corpse charge after police found a woman’s body outside his 94 Rockaway Pkwy. home Tuesday, authorities said.
The as-yet-unidentified woman had no obvious injuries and was pronounced dead shortly after the grisly discovery in the sixth-floor hallway about 7 a.m., NYPD officials said.
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Police would not confirm any further details about the incident, citing the ongoing investigation, and said that it was still unclear how the woman died.
Investigators allegedly suspect that the woman died from an overdose, according to the New York Daily News.
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An NYPD spokesperson could not confirm the relationship between the woman and Newkirk as of late Wednesday morning.
Newkirk, in addition to the concealment of a human corpse charge, was arrested on counts of tampering with physical evidence and criminal tampering, authorities said.
Court records show that Newkirk previously served two jail sentences, each lasting only a few months, after being convicted of assault in June 2015 and weapons possession in August 2021.
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