NEW YORK (1010 WIN) – A 78-year-old woman found dead with a phone cord around her neck in her Brooklyn apartment on Friday was murdered, police said Monday.
NYPD officers responding to a 911 call found Juanita Caballero lying on the floor in the hallway of her apartment on Powell Street in Brownsville shortly before 5 p.m. Friday.
Sources told the New York Post that a cord found around her neck was a phone cord.
EMS responded to the apartment at the Woodson Houses and pronounced Caballero dead at the scene. The medical examiner determined that she died of asphyxiation.
Her death has been deemed a homicide. An investigation is ongoing.
