A 58-year-old woman was discovered dead in her Brooklyn apartment on Tuesday, and the NYPD said it is investigating her death as a homicide.
Police said Latanya Parker was found unconscious, unresponsive and surrounded by blood around 3 p.m. on Tuesday in the entryway of her apartment on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, but the city medical examiner's office has yet to determine exactly how she was killed.
Neighbors said Parker’s older daughter made the discovery after she couldn’t get in touch with her mom and came to check on her.
“I was in my house, and I didn’t hear nothing but somebody screaming,” said neighbor Mary Thompson, who lives right next to Parker. She soon realized it was Parker’s daughter.
“She said, ‘Oh, my mother’s in there dead!’ and I said, ‘What?’” Thompson recalled. “Believe me, I didn’t hear a thing, because I thought she was gone. Sometimes she leaves, and I don’t hear nobody over there.”
Thompson said Parker was a quiet neighbor who lived with her younger daughter, who is about 12 years old. The older daughter lived elsewhere.
Thompson recalled that Parker would always leave to take her younger daughter to school, then return to her apartment and sleep.
It’s unclear where Parker's younger daughter was at the time of her mother’s murder, but Thompson said she saw her crying outside of the building with her grandmother on Tuesday afternoon.
“She was upset, and I would have been, too,” Thompson said. “I’m shook up, I’m nervous, I’m really shocked. I’m afraid, because I don’t know what really happened.”
Police have not yet made any arrests or publicly named any suspects.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
