A Court of Appeals judge was found dead in the Hudson River Wednesday afternoon.
The NYPD says Sheila Abdus-Salaam was found dead by police near West 132nd Street around 1:45 p.m.
She was reported missing on Tuesday.
Officials say she had no obvious signs of trauma. They are working to determine a cause of death.
Abdus-Salaam was the first African-American woman, and the first Muslim, to serve on the Court of Appeals. She was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2013.
She was previously elected to the State Supreme Court in 1993.
She was also a staff attorney for Brooklyn Legal Services, a lawyer for the New York City Office of Labor Services, a civil court judge and criminal court judge.
Sheila Abdus-Salaam was 65 years old.
thinkpadius on April 13rd, 2017 at 04:48 UTC »
For those worried about this being a fake news article or annoyed by the fact that this was basically written by a bot, here's the NYTimes article on the subject:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/nyregion/judge-dead-hudson-river-sheila-abdus-salaam.html
biggieemilio on April 13rd, 2017 at 02:20 UTC »
What the hell that article was two paragraphs!!! Who was this women? What did she accomplish? Why would someone kill her? Write a story for crying out loud this was a person.
frenchkeley on April 13rd, 2017 at 00:10 UTC »
She was also the first Muslim to serve on the court.