Human Remains Found In Inwood's Highbridge Park, Police Say

INWOOD, NY — A woman walking her dog Tuesday night in Highbridge Park discovered a set of human remains, an NYPD spokesman said.

The woman was walking in the dog run near Audubon and Ft. George avenues when she came across the bones around 8 p.m., an NYPD spokesman said. The shocked woman called police, who recovered the remains and turned them over the the city medical examiner, the spokesman said

The medical examiner has since concluded that the remains are human, but that they were likely used for ceremonial purposes, an NYPD spokesman said. Police are searching the area near where the bones were found to see if they find any more remains, the spokesman said.

People who live and work near the dog run were spooked by the discovery.

"That's pretty crazy," Andy Pena, a janitor at the nearby Equity Project Charter School told the Daily News. "There's a lot of things that go on in this neighborhood but skeletal remains is not one of them."

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