NYC Medical Examiner Releases Details of Death of Bergen Man Found In Trunk

The death of the Fort Lee man who was reported kidnapped and later identified as the man who was found dead in the trunk of his own BMW has been ruled a homicide.

The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office says 24-year-old Jordan Johnson died from compression of the neck, according to NorthJersey.com.

Johnson’s body was found close to a cemetery in the Norwood section of the Bronx last week in a 2013 BMW after his girlfriend, Megan Faulkner, reported him kidnapped from the Fort Lee apartment they shared.

Faulkner said she received an “unusual message from him, asking her to meet him in Harlem,” and when he didn’t show up at the Harlem address, she returned to their apartment to find it had been ransacked.

Police are also looking to question a man who was caught on surveillance video walking away from Johnson’s vehicle around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday after being inside of the car, according to NorthJersey.com. The man, who can be seen below in NJ.com’s video, was wearing gray pants and a blue jacket with a fur-lined hood.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS, visit the Crime Stoppers website, or send a text message at 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

More on this story:

• Body Found in Trunk Identified as Fort Lee Man Reported Kidnapped

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