A maintenance worker has discovered the body of a man wrapped in a plastic bag on the rooftop of a McDonald's in New York's South ...
A maintenance worker has discovered the body of a man wrapped in a plastic bag on the rooftop of a McDonald's in New York's South Bronx.
Police said they responded to a call from the worker about an unconscious man just before 6am on Wednesday.
The body was inside the bag and covered by a heavy U-Haul blanket.
A man was found dead inside a plastic bag and covered with a heavy U-Haul blanket on Wednesday morning. A maintenance worker reported finding the unconscious man in a 911 call
The unidentified person was on the rooftop of a McDonald's in the South Bronx, NYC
When officers arrived at the location of the fast food restaurant on 279 East 149th Street cops discovered the person 'unconscious and unresponsive'.
EMS responded to the scene in the Melrose neighborhood and pronounced the man dead at the scene.
The New York Police Department was conducting an investigation on Wednesday morning.
Video footage from WABC showed them assessing the scene.
The man was not immediately identified. No other details were offered.
Authorities are waiting for the Medical Examiner to determine a cause of death.
EMS pronounced the man dead at the scene. The Medical Examiner is set to determine his cause of death
Investigators are seen analyzing the scene on Wednesday morning after the 6am discovery
The discovery comes a day after the body of a tech millionaire was discovered beheaded in his Manhattan apartment.
Fahim Saleh, 33, who was born in Saudi Arabia and whose family comes from Bangladesh, was found dismembered. He grew up in New York and lived in Manhattan.
Authorities discovered an electric saw on the scene and believe a hitman carried out the killing.
Saleh ran a motorcycle company in Nigeria but it was banned by the government.
Police are now looking for a suspect they believe is a professional killer.
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