Man is found dead inside New York food truck filled with flies and maggots after stench of his decomposing body spread through the neighborhood
- Decomposing corpse was discovered in passenger seat of New York truck Friday
- Flies and stench attracted cops to truck that used to serve food from El Salvador
- Vehicle was filled with junk and parked on Liberty Ave near 177th St in Jamaica
- It was ditched there a week after a local enjoyed pupusas from there on May 10
- Maggots flooded Virginia licensed truck with flat tables and children’s books
- Local who walked by van every day detected some smells from last week
- The person said the dead man lived in the vehicle and collected scraps to sell
- Another neighbor thought he had dead rodents in his home due to the stench
Residents of a New York neighborhood are in shock after the body of a man was discovered decomposing in a food truck almost two months after it was ditched beneath an underpass.
The deceased person was found in the passenger seat of the vehicle decorated in a jungle print that law enforcement in Queens cranked open around 10.40am on Friday with ah crowbar.
They were greeted by swarms of flies and maggots as they busted open the motor that was parked outside several auto repair shops in the Jamaica neighborhood.
It was a week after a stench was detected by some locals, one of which said they walked by every day without knowing there was a corpse inside.
Decomposing corpse was discovered in the passenger seat of New York truck on Friday. Flies and stench attracted cops to truck that used to serve food from El Salvador
Another who said they last ate pupusas from the vendor on May 10.
Cops said the body had been there a long time and it was filled with junk including folded flat tables and children’s books.
One person told the New York Daily News the dead man – who sold food from El Salvador – lived inside the truck.
Carlos Jadan, 32, said that last week: ‘It didn’t smell strong because it was closed up good.’
The dead man lived in the vehicle and collected scraps to sell. A local said he enjoyed pupusas from there on May 10 and a week later he saw the truck parked by the underpass
It stayed parked on Liberty Ave near 177th St in Jamaica, since one week after the last reported food sale from Ty LaFrance, 22, almost two months ago. He called the discovery ‘unreal’.
Neighbor Trey Young, 24, said the whiff was so bad that he believed rats or mice had died in his home.
‘At first I thought it was like trash or like rodents, like, dead and in my house or something,’ Young said.
Vehicle was filled with junk and maggots while parked on Liberty Ave near 177th St in Jamaica