According to police a Nicaraguan diplomat based in New York was found dead in his apartment in the Bronx today, September 23.
Cesar Mercado, the Consul of Nicaragua in New York, was found by his driver. Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne reported a knife was found at the scene. The body was found dressed just inside the front door to the apartment, and the door had been left unlocked, Browne said. Investigators were looking at the case as a murder.
A resident from Mercado’s apartment heard ‘screaming and banging’ from Mercado’s residence Wedneday night.
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Mercado was found at about 10:30 a.m., said Danilo Rosales Diaz, deputy permanent representative of Nicaragua to the United States.
Mercado had lived in the United States for eight years and had been consul the entire time, Rosales said.
