Human head found in area where woman’s hands were discovered days ago

INVESTIGATORS are awaiting a New York medical examiner’s report to determine if what appears to be a human head and other body parts are linked to a partially dismembered body discovered weeks ago.

A law enforcement official familiar with the case said on Friday that the dismembered body is likely that of a Brooklyn woman reported missing earlier this month. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because that official was not authorised to release the information, but
the official said a tattoo on the torso of the body found on July 8 in a Bay Shore municipal parking lot matches one on Chinelle Latoya Browne, 27. The latest discovery was reportedly made on Thursday, 25 miles away in Hempstead.

Police in New York City and Suffolk County confirmed they are working together on the missing person investigation involving Browne. Hempstead police say the head was found at about 5 p.m. on Thursday on Boylston Street in Hempstead, close to where the two arms were found a day apart.

A Hempstead homeowner found a human arm with women’s clothing attached to it in his front yard on Webb Avenue on July 9. The next day, someone else discovered another human arm in their yard about a half-mile away, near Stewart Avenue and Cornell Street.

Police were looking into whether the arms are related to the discovery of a partially dismembered body in a municipal parking lot in Bay Shore on July 8, when two people walking to the ferry on Fire Island spotted the body.

Homicide detectives in Nassau and Suffolk counties are investigating as they await DNA results on the other body parts.

Chinelle Browne, 27, originally from Georgetown, went missing in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday 5th July, 2012. Chinelle had migrated to the United States last May, had returned to Guyana in April this year for two weeks, and then had returned to reside in the USA until she went missing that Saturday. Her New York address was 346 Sumter Street, Brooklyn.

Browne had four children: three–year-old twins Ariel and Michaela; five-year-old Jonathan, and seven-year-old Gabrielle Browne, all of whom reside with their father in Guyana.

Crime scene investigators are waiting on the DNA results from the laboratory to officially confirm that the body may be that of the Guyanese mom.

(Asif Hakim, credits to NBC New York)