Cops Investigate Death Of Man Found Under Mattress In Midtown Hotel
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Police are investigating the death of a man found unconscious with a head injury under a mattress at a hotel blocks from the Empire State Building.
Officers were called to the Hilton Garden Inn on West 35th Street around 4 a.m. Monday. Police said the unresponsive man had suffered trauma to the back of his head.
The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Cops Investigate Death Of Man Found Under Mattress In Midtown Hotel
Investigators and medical examiners are working to determine how he died. Police believe he was in his 30s.
The man was part of a group of people seen entering the hotel earlier, police told WCBS 880's Peter Haskell. When the others were seeing running out of the hotel around 4 a.m., police were called.
Cops said there had been two noise complaints about the room before they discovered the victim.
A hotel manager hasn't immediately returned a call. A front desk staffer said the establishment had no comment.
Hotel guests said they were shaken.
"A little scary," one woman said. "I mean, it's creepy."
"It's horrible," another woman said. "Shocking."
Cops Investigate Death Of Man Found Under Mattress In Midtown Hotel
The 298-room hotel is near Herald Square and Penn Station, in a part of midtown Manhattan bustling with both tourists and business travelers.
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