A 41-year-old man was found dead inside Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices on Staten Island — an iconic flagship store of summer-time treats, police said.
Cops responded to a 911 call around 9:50 a.m. Saturday and found the man unconscious and unresponsive inside the Port Richmond shop, authorities said. EMS pronounced the man dead at the scene.
The shop remained closed for the rest of Saturday before reopening at noon Sunday, according to a social media post by the shop.
The man’s body was found in a storage room, a police source said. His identity has not been released as family waits to be notified.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is investigating the cause of death. No criminality is suspected, according to police.
