By Michael V. Cusenza
The decapitated body of an Ozone Park man was discovered Friday morning near 165th Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard.
The 46-year-old man was identified on Tuesday as Lukasz Mikolajewicz of Dumont Avenue.
City Police and Fire officials found noose hanging from the Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge—a span that carries Cross Bay Boulevard across Jamaica Bay between Howard Beach and Broad Channel. The noose was discovered roughly 1,000 feet from where the body was located.
According to published reports, became decapitated while committing suicide.
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Mikolajewicz’s body was discovered floating in Jamaica Bay.
Cops informed the Post that “the theory here is that he hanged himself”; though nothing has been confirmed.
This area of Howard Beach has experienced more than its fair share of tragedy. In September 2015, after seemingly vanishing for three months, the lifeless body of Gary Russo was discovered hanging from a tree in Spring Creek Park near 165th Avenue and 92nd Street, approximately a mile from his Howard Beach home.
Russo, 54, had been missing since July 29.
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The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will officially determine the cause and manner of death.
Police sources told the New York Daily News that Russo had been “apparently depressed” for some time “over a bad breakup with a girlfriend.”
Russo, dubbed the “2nd Avenue Sinatra” due to his penchant for serenading passersby and his fellow construction workers with Chairman of the Board classics in an uncanny impression that matched Old Blue Eyes’ timbre and cadence, was last seen in Howard Beach shortly after midnight on July 28. Cops found his pickup truck on 165th Avenue near Cross Bay Boulevard a couple of days after he was declared missing.
