Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'washingtonsquarevillage'
September 11, 2007
Prosecutors painted a disturbing story of how 20-year-old Boitumelo McCallum was killed by a boyfriend. Last month, McCallum's body was found in her mother's Washington Square Village apartment, and quickly police zeroed in on her boyfriend, Michael Cordero. Police found Cordero after he slit his wrists on a rooftop and he had apparently confessed to killing McCallum. Prosecutors believe that Cordero was jealous because McCallum was having a party that included other men and had......
Continue Reading "Man Pleads Not Guilty in Greenwich Village Murder"August 8, 2007
Last night, the police found the boyfriend of the 20-year-old woman whose dead body was discovered wrapped in bedding in a Greenwich Village apartment. Police say Michael Cordero, 23, tried to slit his wrists on the roof of a building at West 62nd and Amsterdam; the Daily News reports that a family member tried to stop him, but Cordero "fled down the block, trailing blood, to a Western Beef supermarket on West End Ave." where......
Continue Reading "Victim's Boyfriend Attempts Suicide, Taken Into Custody"August 7, 2007
Police are handling the death of a young woman, found in her mother's apartment at NYU-owned 4 Washington Square Village, as a possible homicide. The woman, Boitumelo McCallum, last seen either on Wednesday night or Thursday morning, was found on Sunday, after subletters smelled a foul odor coming from the locked room and called the super. The Daily News reports that the police discovered McCallum's decomposed body "wrapped tightly in a bedsheet and wedged between......
Continue Reading "Police Investigate Greenwich Village Death "August 6, 2007
The police discovered the decomposed body of a 20-year-old woman at 4 Washington Square Village yesterday evening. WABC 7 says that the victim was last seen alive on Wednesday and was found "inside a locked bedroom." Neighbors had called the police to complain about a foul odor; the police are handling the situation as a homicide until they hear from the ME's office. NYU's spokesman John Beckman released a statement; here is some of it:“The......
Continue Reading "DOA Found at NYU's Washington Square Village"
