24-Year-Old Found Dead On Her Own Doorstep Is Identified: Report

Mount Vernon NY

06 October, 2021

8:15 PM

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MOUNT VERNON, NY — The loved ones of a 24-year-old woman who was found dead at the front door of her family home says they suspect misadventure, but police and preliminary results from the medical examiner have so far given no indication of foul play. At 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the Mount Vernon police say they received a call about an unresponsive woman in the front vestibule of 165 Summit Ave. Police found the body of the woman inside the front entry to the home. Detectives have so far declined to refer to the case as a homicide, instead calling the case an "unattended death" investigation. The body was taken by the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office. Police have not yet released the identity of the dead woman, but Alexandra Castano's mother told ABC News the body was that of her daughter who lived with her at the address. Lucia Castano told reporters that she discovered her daughter's body in the vestibule of their Mount Vernon home Tuesday morning after the 24-year-old failed to return home the previous night. "It's like somebody put her there," Castano told WABC News reporter Marcus Solis. The family said preliminary autopsy results haven't shed any light on what happened to Alexandra Castano. They said they will insist on a second independent autopsy in a desperate bid to get answers. The Mount Vernon Police Department Detective Division is in charge of the investigation. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Detective Division at 914-665-2510.