A woman whose body was found by a dog-walker stuffed in a duffle bag on a Queens street Saturday morning may have been killed by a family member in a nearby home, police sources said.
The dog-walker called 911 after making the grim discovery at about 8:10 a.m. on Metropolitan Ave. near Forest Park Drive, which cuts through Forest Park near the Jackie Robinson Parkway.
The woman had no ID on her and was covered in blood, cops said.
Police focused their attention on a home on nearby Juno St. Saturday afternoon, and were looking into the possibility that a male relative killed her and dumped the body, sources said.
One park-goer, who gave his first name, Jonathan, 30, said he was shocked to hear about the woman’s body being found by his normal walking path.
“We walk here on weekends usually. It’s horrifying,” he said.
Homicide investigators on Saturday were at a home in Queens questioning a teenage boy in connection to the discovery of a woman’s body found that morning in a duffel bag dumped near an overpass, police sources told News 4.
The NYPD said a 911 call was made at 8:18 a.m., alerting police to the Forest Hills crime scene on Metropolitan Avenue at the Union Turnpike.
Officers found the bag and discovered a woman’s body inside, according to the NYPD, which initially reported the body inside was dismembered. The circumstances leading to the victim’s death and her identity have not been confirmed by police.
Investigators spent much of the day scouring the crime scene for evidence, some of which led police to a nearby house, according to law enforcement sources. Those officials said a blood trail was discovered between the nearby residence and the location where the body was dumped.
