NEW YORK - The NYPD has arrested and charged a 21-year-old man with murder after the body of a 35-year-old woman was found inside a plastic storage container on a sidewalk in the High Bridge section of the Bronx.
Authorities say that 21-year-old Khalid Barrow has been charged with the death of his 35-year-old cousin, Nisaa Walcott.
Barrow has been charged with murder and concealing a human corpse.
The victim was discovered around 2 p.m. in the High bridge section, unconscious and unresponsive inside a container on University Avenue.
An autopsy has been planned and the cause of Walcott's death is still unknown.
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The family of the victim says she was a mother to a 14-year-old son.