Two asylum seekers were found dead from suspected drug overdoses outside a migrant shelter in Brooklyn early Thursday, the Daily News has learned.
Police discovered the men, whose names were not immediately released, around 5 a.m. in a car parked outside the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center at 455 Jefferson St. in Bushwick, where the city houses migrants, NYPD sources said Friday.
Drug paraphernalia was found in the car, the sources added. It was not clear what type of drugs caused the apparent overdoses.
Fabien Levy, a spokesman for Mayor Adams, confirmed the deaths and said the incident remains under NYPD investigation.
A manager working at the Bushwick site, which opened as an emergency migrant shelter in March, told police he recognized the men as asylum seekers who have been staying at the facility, the sources said.
Brooklyn Councilwoman Jennifer Gutierrez, a Democrat whose district includes the Jefferson St. migrant shelter, said she was told by officers from the local precinct that the two men are from Venezuela and Colombia.
She also said police told her one of the men’s brothers stayed at another nearby migrant shelter. The brother has been notified of his sibling’s death, she said.
“It’s so heartbreaking,” Gutierrez said.
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