Police believe body transported on Metro-North train before being dumped in shopping cart in Yonkers

YONKERS, New York (WABC) — The person discovered dead in a shopping cart on the Yonkers-Mount Vernon border is believed to have been killed in the Bronx and taken by train to where the body was dumped.

The gruesome discovery was first made near the Oak Street Bridge over the Bronx River Parkway just before 2 a.m. Monday.

However detectives think the man was killed somewhere in the confines of the 41st Precinct. His body was rolled in a shopping cart onto a Metro-North train, and taken to Westchester County, where it was dumped and set on fire.

The remains were discovered blocks from the Mount Vernon West Station on the Metro-North Harlem line. The victim’s hands were cut off and teeth were knocked out, which delayed identification of the body.

Detectives executed a search warrant at an apartment at 903 Rogers Place in the Bronx on Monday night. Source say the victim’s legs were in bags in the freezer and their hands were in a crockpot filled with bleach.

The rest of the person’s body, head, torso and legs, were located in the shopping cart in Yonkers.

Drug paraphernalia and a gun were found in the kitchen of the Bronx apartment.

The medical examiner will now determine the victim’s identity and the cause of death, which is being investigated as a homicide.

There is no word on any arrests or suspects at this time.

Police officials say this crime is not connected to the nearby discovery of another corpse last Wednesday. That death was classified as a suicide.

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