NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A 38-year-old woman who was found dead last week inside a hotel room in SoHo was identified by police.
The victim was identified as Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, 38, a mother from Queens.
Cops responded to a 911 call on Feb. 8, at around 10:30 a.m. at the SoHo 54 Hotel on 54 Watts St., where they found Oleas-Arancibia unconscious and unresponsive.
Hotel staff had discovered the woman inside the room with trauma to her face, sources told the Daily News.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
There were no signs of forced entry into the room, police sources told the Daily News.
A bloody iron was also found next to her.
Edwin Cevallos, the 18-year-old son of Oleas-Arancibia, shared with the Daily News that his mother was nervous and worried in the week before her death.
She came to the U.S. from Ecuador and lived in Jackson Heights with Cevallos and her young nephew. Her younger son, aged 13, and her parents still live in Ecuador.
Police are currently investigating her death as a murder.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined her death to be homicide, a spokesperson for the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner told New York Post Monday.
Currently, no arrests have been made and the investigation is actively continuing.