9-year-old girl found dead in Brooklyn with head trauma and bite marks

Police said a 9-year-old girl was found dead with a head injury and bite marks on her back in Brooklyn on Sunday. New York Post.

Shalom Guifarro was found around 571:XNUMX pm in a bedroom at XNUMX Lincoln Place in Crown Heights. The police arrived after employees of the restaurant downstairs noticed a bad smell. Bart Habbuch, owner of the Memphis Seoul restaurant below the apartment, said the woman who lives there has two daughters: Shalom and her younger sister. “Very well brought up,” he said of the children. “Although mom is a real nightmare. She always yelled at them. She had a small dog and she was very thin. The father was just here, he was interrogated by the police, and he sped off, ”Habbuch added.

He said he left the restaurant around 12:30. The staff called him to tell him about a bad smell and strange water dripping into the restaurant from the apartment. Habbukh called the landlord, he came. When the police arrived at the scene around XNUMX:XNUMX p.m., they found Shalom unconscious in the apartment. Emergency services officials pronounced the girl dead at the scene.

Habbuh gave the police a videotape showing everyone who had entered and left the building in the past 35 hours. “It's a terrible situation,” he said. “Even the police are excited about it.”

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The family has lived there for the past two years. The girl's death shocked neighbors who stood outside the building on Sunday evening as the medical examiner collected her body. The police also seized two cages with dogs from the house. In addition to the small dog, the family also had a pit bull, neighbors said.

The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. There were no arrests on Sunday evening as police continued their investigation.