Brooklyn, NY – Carbon monoxide poisoning is suspected in the death of a Brooklyn woman early Saturday, police sources said.
Nilda Sing, 55, was found by her brother at about 2:30 a.m. in the apartment they shared on Fort Hamilton Parkway near 55th Street in Borough Park, police said.
First responders quickly detected a high level of carbon monoxide in the apartment.
Two weeks earlier, workers used electrical tape to patch a leak in the building’s chimney, said George Anthony, the super.
The patched section of pipe burst in the hours before Sing died, Anthony said. They didn’t [fix] the chimney properly, the super said. The smoke came right to her room.
The landlord could not be reached for comment.