A Long Island woman found dead in her home last week was killed with an unknown chemical substance in what authorities have determined to be a homicide.
Aleena Asif, a 46-year-old Herricks resident, was found dead in her house on Larch Drive on the afternoon of Oct. 17 when cops were responding to a welfare check just before 4 p.m.
She was discovered “unconscious, not breathing and had apparent facial burns,” Nassau County police said Thursday. No one else was in the home at the time that cops arrived.
Asif was pronounced dead at the scene, about 15 miles east of Central Park. Following a subsequent autopsy, the county medical examiner ruled her cause of death was “criminal homicide due to asphyxiation by an unknown chemical substance,” according to police.
“Further testing [will] be done by the medical examiner officer. The investigation is ongoing,” cops said. “Detectives request that if anyone has information regarding the above incident to contact the Nassau County Crime Stoppers…or dial 911.”
Asif is one of two women to be found dead in her home just east of Manhattan in the past week.
A few miles west of Herricks, in Ridgewood, Queens, a 48-year-old woman was found dead in her residence near Cypress Avenue on Tuesday night. That woman has not been publicly identified, and her cause of death has not been released by authorities. Unlike in Nassau County, no signs of foul play were reported at the scene in Queens.
