NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – Police found a burned body inside a shopping cart in Yonkers on Monday and have now linked it to human remains found inside a Bronx apartment, according to sources.
The Yonkers Police Department received a call about a fire on the southern sidewalk of the Oak Street bridge, near the jurisdictional border with Mt. Vernon at around 2 a.m. Monday. Officers from the Westchester County Department of Public Safety and the Mount Vernon Fire Department arrived to extinguish the flames and in a turn of events discovered a lifeless body placed in a shopping cart and set on fire.
Police canvassed the area, and the investigation was officially classified as a homicide later Monday, according to a press release. Detectives found that while the body was set on fire in Yonkers, the location appeared to be a "dump site."
Sources told NBC New York that the body may have been transported to Yonkers via Metro-North, as there's video of a man rolling the same shopping cart onto a commuter train in the Bronx.
Then around 11:30 p.m., Bronx homicide detectives with the NYPD executed a search warrant at an apartment in the Bronx in which cops found human remains inside the kitchen.
During the search, police also recovered a firearm and drug paraphernalia from a bedroom.
The identity of the deceased has not been released and the cause of death will be determined by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, police said.
Sources told 1010 WINS and WCBS 880 that the human remains found in a kitchen in the Bronx apartment were believed to be linked to the burned body discovered in Yonkers. The investigation was handed over to the NYPD and the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office.
There have been no arrests made in connection to both cases.
An investigation is ongoing.