{"id":107069,"date":"2024-09-05T06:05:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/body-found-in-suitcase-outside-long-island-apartment-building\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:05:42","slug":"body-found-in-suitcase-outside-long-island-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/body-found-in-suitcase-outside-long-island-apartment-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in suitcase outside Long Island apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-04\/GettyImages_Police_090424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Douglas Sacha\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y.) &#8212; Police are investigating after human remains were found inside a suitcase Tuesday on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a 911 call Tuesday morning reporting &#8220;suspicious activity&#8221; in a wooded area near an apartment building in Huntington Station, New York, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon arriving, police found a person deceased in a suitcase next to the building,&#8221; police said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s identity and cause of death is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>The Suffolk County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office will conduct an autopsy, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police are requesting anyone with information concerning the incident to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>A resident at the apartment complex told New York ABC station WABC she had heard the sounds of a woman screaming at about 3 a.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Another person living in the area said she saw police respond to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police came and lifted it and saw it was a body,&#8221; the individual said. &#8220;The smell was rancid. Potent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Sacha\/Getty Images (HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y.) &#8212; Police are investigating after human remains were found inside a suitcase Tuesday on Long Island. Officers responded to a 911 call Tuesday morning reporting &#8220;suspicious activity&#8221; in a wooded area near an apartment building in Huntington Station, New York, according to the Suffolk<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/body-found-in-suitcase-outside-long-island-apartment-building\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}