Young Woman's Dead Body Found Floating Off Red Hook, Brooklyn

Pictured: The Valentino Pier in Red Hook, where police brought a young woman's body ashore Monday. Image via Google Maps

UPDATE, Tuesday, 8 p.m.: The woman has been identified as missing 20-year-old Crown Heights resident Rachel Hutchinson.

Original story below.

RED HOOK, BROOKLYN — In the second such incident within the past week in Brooklyn, police said a dead woman believed to be in her 30s was found floating in the Upper New York Bay off Red Hook, near Governor's Island, around 10:10 a.m. Monday.

The NYPD had not yet released the woman's identity by Monday evening, "pending proper family notification."

A fisherman called 911 Monday morning, Brooklyn Paper reported, after spotting the body floating in the bay off Red Hook's Valentino Pier.

"Upon arrival, officers from the NYPD's Harbor Unit discovered an unconscious and unresponsive female in her 30s and removed her to the Valentino Pier," police said in a news release. "EMS arrived and pronounced the female deceased at the scene."

The Medical Examiner is working to determine the woman's cause of death. However, police told Brooklyn Paper they didn't notice any visible injuries to the woman’s body.

Exactly one week earlier — on Monday, May 2 — another body washed ashore in Sheepshead Bay.

In that case, though, foul play was immediately apparent. The victim — later identified as 28-year-old ex-con Peter Martinez — was reportedly wrapped in plastic when he was found. And his feet, according to DNAinfo, had been dipped in 100 pounds of concrete.

Police sources later told DNAinfo that Martinez had been a member of the G Stone Crips, the same East Flatbush gang tied to embattled Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda.