Young Woman Found Dead, Bloodied in Brooklyn Skate Park

BAY RIDGE, BROOKLYN — A young woman was discovered dead "with trauma to the head" around 10 a.m. Thursday morning in Owl's Head Park, a public park located at the north end of Bay Ridge where it meets the Sunset Park neighborhood, according to the New York City Police Department (NYPD).

Local cops told the Brooklyn Reporter, a small newspaper that covers the Bay Ridge/Sunset Park area, that the woman — found bleeding from her head in the enclosed skate-park area at Owl's Head — was white, blonde and apparently in her late 20s. Judging by her clothing, she did not appear to be a jogger, according to the Reporter.

The New York Post's police sources, meanwhile, said the woman "appeared to have blunt-force trauma to the head and was fully clothed" when discovered by an off-duty firefighter jogging in the park. Her death was being considered suspicious, the sources said.

The NYPD's press office could not confirm most of these specifics. "The medical examiner will determine her cause of death," a police spokesman said.

A spokesman for the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) told Patch that the department sent an ambulance to the park Thursday morning, but that emergency responders "did not transport the victim, because it was a crime scene."

Back in early August, a young woman named Karina Vetrano was brutally raped and murdered as she jogged through Spring Creek Park in Queens — starting a citywide dialogue about how to make public parks safer for residents, especially during the nighttime and early-morning hours.

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Pictured: Owl's Head Park. Photo via NYC Parks