Tattoo on dismembered body found in Long Island parking lot similar to one on missing Guyanese mother
Missing Chinelle Browne
Missing Chinelle Browne

FORENSIC tests are still to determine identity of the partially dismembered body of a woman found in a weed-strewn parking lot in Bay Shore, Long Island, USA on Tuesday, but relatives of 27-year-old Chinelle Latoya Browne, who has been missing from her Brownsville home since Saturday, think the body is hers.

The apartment which Chinelle had rented
The apartment which Chinelle had rented

The body found on Long Island has the same tattoo as the one a missing mom from Brooklyn is reported to have, according to a police source; but authorities have said that forensic tests have not yet determined the identity of the woman whose body was found in the weed-strewn Long Island parking lot.

As police investigate, relatives of 27-year-old Chinelle Latoya Browne, missing from her Brownsville home since Saturday, believe she is gone.

“Right now, we are sad and broken-hearted at losing our beloved sister so soon and so tragic,” a sister of Chinelle, who spoke on condition of anonynimity, declared. “My sister was a decent and hard-working human being who did not deserve to die this way,” she continued.

And Dale Browne, speaking from his home in Guyana, said his wife Chinelle, the mother of his four children, moved to Brooklyn a year ago, and was working at the Century 21 department store in Lower Manhattan. The plan, he said, was for him to join her with their kids after he got his paperwork in order.

Crime scene investigators on the scene
Crime scene investigators on the scene

He said his wife rented a room on Sumpter St., and he last spoke with her on Saturday. He said he reported her missing when he could no longer reach her.

Dale Brown said he learned from another tenant that his wife had an argument with the landlady about electricity payments, and the landlady had hit her.

The landlady, whose name is being withheld because she has not been charged with a crime, suggested to the Daily News that she was defending herself.

“If somebody hit me, I’d hit her back!” the landlady said. Asked what happened to Browne, she yelled, “Stop assuming! Stop assuming!”

Two police sources have confirmed that the landlady and another person are considered people of interest in the case.

On Tuesday morning, two people walking to the Fire Island ferry found a partially dismembered body in a Bay Shore, Long Island parking lot. A “distinctive” tattoo on the torso of that dead woman matches one on Mrs. Chinelle Browne’s body, based on what her husband told the NYPD, the first cop source said.

The Suffolk County Police Department has said that said homicide detectives are investigating the case. They are awaiting the results of forensic tests to identify the woman and also determine if a severed arm found on the front lawn of a home in Hempstead on Wednesday belongs to the body found in Bay Shore.

The Nassau County Police Department, which has the case of the severed arm, said forensic tests are still being conducted.
Suffolk police said on Tuesday that they are investigating the discovery of the woman’s body, which was found in a weed-strewn lot. Detective Lt. Kevin Beyrer said two passersby called police after seeing the body as they walked to the ferry, at about 06:50 hrs.

Police had no comment on the approximate age of the victim, but Beyrer said on Tuesday that authorities were looking into missing persons’ reports.

(Asif Hakim, credits to NY Daily News)

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