NYPD says body wrapped in plastic found on roof of Bronx McDonald's

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A body was found wrapped in a plastic bag on the roof of a McDonald’s in the Bronx section of New York City on Wednesday, police said.

Officers responding to a 911 call at around 6 a.m. found the man’s body inside a bag on the roof of a McDonald’s in the South Bronx, police said.

The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The city medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of death.

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The New York Post spoke to witnesses who said the discovery left the area shaken.

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“The smell was pouring in through the window and the feet were poking out,” said local resident Marsha, who said her friend lives in a building one window up from the McDonald’s roof and saw the body, which was surrounded by flies. “He looked like he had been there a few days because he was lying all wet in the water from the rain.”

One witness described how the discovery of the body occurred.

“There was a cleaner doing regular check-up when he found the body on the roof,” a woman named Nathalia, a Manhattan resident who works in a pharmacy next door to the McDonald’s, said. “I heard it was thrown from another window onto the roof.”

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The incident was so shocking one witness called it surreal as if out of a tale of fiction.

“The police come every once in a while to check up on the building and the McDonalds but nothing like this has ever happened before,” a man named Alex, 30, who works at the nail salon next door, said. “I didn’t know things like this happened for real.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.