Mom in agony after daughter found murdered, body dumped in sleeping bag
The distraught mother of a 31-year-old woman found fatally shot, wrapped in a sleeping bag and left out with the trash on a Kips Bay sidewalk said Monday that she fainted when she learned of her daughter’s death.
The body of the woman — identified by family as Yazmeen Williams — was found stuffed inside a sleeping bag and left among several black trash bags placed on the sidewalk for garbage collection outside 207 E. 27th St. around 5 p.m. Friday, cops said.
Cops confirmed Monday that she was shot in the head and her death was ruled a homicide.
“[Officers] said, ‘Are you Yazmeen Williams’ mother?’” Yazmeen’s mother, Nicole Williams, told The Post at her apartment building. “And I said, ‘Yes I’m Nicole Williams. I’m her mother.’ And they said, ‘Your daughter has been shot.’
“And I said, ‘OK, and she’s going to be all right?’ And they said no, that she died,” the grief-stricken mom said as she collapsed in tears. “They said she’s dead. I fainted and the officer had to pick me up off the floor.”
“She’s my baby!” Williams added. “We got to get justice for her!”
“She didn’t deserve what happened to her!”
Police on Monday took a person of interest into custody after he was seen in an electric wheelchair dragging the bag, law enforcement sources said. No charges had been filed, cops said.
The body was dumped on Third Avenue near East 27th Street — before workers at a nearby saloon moved the black bag, thinking it was part of their own trash pile, sources said.
The wrapped-up body was left among several black trash bags placed on the sidewalk for garbage collection.
Police were unable to confirm Monday morning exactly when the fatal shooting took place.
No arrests had been made, and no information was immediately available on a suspect.
But Yazmeen’s mother pointed the finger at one of her daughter’s friends, who uses a wheelchair.
“That’s her friend! The man in the wheelchair is her friend!” she cried. “He’s got to be! He knows her from the neighborhood! Oh my God!”
Yazmeen, who studied criminal justice at Buffalo State University, her mother said.
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She has a twin brother, and her father, who lives in Atlanta, was flying in to the Big Apple Monday.
A small memorial, featuring the woman’s photo surrounded by flowers and candles, could be seen Monday morning on the sidewalk where her body was discovered.
A local homeless man set up the memorial, saying he knew the victim and “just wanted to do right by her,” according to a neighbor who declined to give his name.
