A woman was found dead at the Plumb Beach parking lot in Sheepshead Bay on Wednesday, and investigators have not released her identity or approximate age as they wait on a medical examiner's determination of how she died.
Officers responded to the area off the Belt Parkway just after 3 p.m. local time Wednesday, according to News12 Brooklyn. Police say they found the woman unconscious and unresponsive at the Plumb Beach parking lot, and paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.
Few Details Released So Far
Investigators have identified the person as female but have not provided her approximate age or released her identity, per the station's report. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine her cause and manner of death, a process that remains ongoing as of Wednesday night.
The station's account does not indicate whether anyone is currently suspected in connection with the death, and no further details about the circumstances have been made public.
Plumb Beach's History With Sudden Deaths
The stretch of parking lot near Plumb Beach has been the scene of other sudden deaths over the years, though there is no evidence tying any of them to Wednesday's case. In 2019, a search involving at least 100 uniformed and plainclothes officers converged on the same parking lot after NYPD Detective Joe Calabrese went missing, according to Police Magazine. Calabrese's black Cadillac sedan was found near the beach off the Belt Parkway around 3 a.m., as reported by the New York Post, which noted his death came a day after NYPD Queens North deputy chief Steven Silks fatally shot himself.
Calabrese, who Police1 identified as a Brooklyn South homicide squad detective and a longtime board member and union trustee for the Detectives Endowment Association, was reported by some archived accounts to have died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, though other reports at the time said authorities had not publicly stated how he died. His age was reported as both 58 and 57 in different accounts, including one from bklyner.com. There is no indication that Wednesday's death is connected to the 2019 case.
Sheepshead Bay parking lots have seen other unexplained deaths as well. In February 2015, a 31-year-old Gravesend man named Alfred Natkin was found dead inside his vehicle in a Sheepshead Bay parking lot, with the medical examiner not yet having determined a cause of death at the time, according to the Brooklyn Paper.
For now, Wednesday's case remains an open investigation, with the woman's identity and the manner of her death still unconfirmed.
