BX. MA DEAD IN APT.
Found with bag on head amid blood; cops look to grill son
A Bronx woman’s body was found inside her apartment with a bag over her head — and police want to question her adult son, authorities said Sunday.
The victim, identified by relatives as 59-year-old Teresita Rosario, had a plastic bag over her head when she was found dead by cops next to a blood spatter, sources said. There were signs of a struggle.
“She was a very happy person. She was the love of the family,” said the victim’s sister-in-law Nereyeda Marten. “She was always the one people asked about. Like, ‘How is your sister-in-law, the one that’s very loud and likes to dance and is always smiling and never sad?’ ”
Cops showed up to perform a wellness check at the apartment on Clinton Ave. near Crotona Ave. in Belmont about 8:10 p.m. Saturday after getting a 911 call from the victim’s worried 30-year-old daughter, a nurse who lives upstate.
After firefighters took the door ddown, cops ffoundd RosarioRi dead d d on the floor at the bottom of the basement stairs. The city medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine how she died.
“She had two children with my brother,” Marten said. “She loved her children so much.”
Cops were trying to track down Rosario’s 29-year-old son for questioning. Rosario lived with her son, and the cops had been called in the
past for domestic violence incidents between them, sources said.
Rosario’s son just became a dad in September, relatives said.
“I haven’t seen her since last year with all this coronavirus stuff. We’ve all been too stressed,” Marten said of Rosario. “I’ve been missing her for the last couple of weeks because I wanted to catch up — but we didn’t get to talk.”
Rosario immigrated to New York from the Dominican Republic about 35 years ago and worked cleaning offices in Midtown, relatives said.
“She was a beautiful woman who opened her heart to everybody,” said Leo Reyes, 31, the victim’s nephew. “She never said one bad thing about anyone. She was always the life of the party. She loved every one of us. It’s a tragedy.”
“You can never find that lady sad or mad,” he added. “She was just always happy and laughing and cracking jokes. Every get-together she was just always the loud one, making everyone smile. She was always giving me a big hug every time she seen me.”
Reyes said Rosario has always worked hard to provide for her son and daughter.
“She was a great cook, she was a great mother,” Reyes said. “She always had lots of love to give. And I don’t know where it went wrong.”