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Cops searching for killer after man found strangled to death in Bronx apartment

The apartment building where a man was discovered strangled to death on Friday.
The apartment building where a man was discovered strangled to death on Friday.
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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Police are searching for a killer who strangled a man to death in his Bronx apartment.

Yaya Kouyate, 48, was discovered Friday around 10:30 a.m. in his apartment on Hoe Avenue near Jennings Street in Crotona Park East, officials said.


Officers discovered him lying face up on his bathroom floor, unresponsive. EMS pronounced him dead on the scene.

The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner deemed the death a homicide and determined he was strangled to death.

Police have not yet made any arrests, and an investigation into the killing is ongoing.