Body Discovered in Burning Shopping Cart in Yonkers

In a shocking discovery, a body was found burning inside a shopping cart on a sidewalk in Yonkers, New York, early Monday morning. The Yonkers Police Department reported that the remains were located near the Oak Street Bridge over the Bronx River Parkway shortly before 2 a.m. Responding to a fire, the Westchester County Department of Public Safety and the Mount Vernon Fire Department extinguished the flames, revealing the deceased body. Following this, the Yonkers Police launched a homicide investigation. Authorities later determined that the location where the body was found served as a "dump site," and the victim was believed to have been killed in an apartment on Rogers Place in the Bronx. Investigators suspect that the majority of the body was transported via the Melrose MetroNorth train to Mount Vernon West before being discarded and set ablaze in Yonkers. Surveillance footage played a crucial role in tracing the suspects' movements between the Bronx and Yonkers. The investigation has since been handed over to the New York City Police Department and the Bronx County District Attorney's Office. A search warrant executed at the Bronx apartment revealed additional remains, including hands and teeth, along with drug paraphernalia and a firearm. As of now, the victim's identity remains unknown, complicating efforts to determine the circumstances surrounding their death, as the body was severely burned.