Family wants answers after daughter found dead

MOUNT VERNON, New York (WABC) -- A grieving parent welcomed friends Wednesday arsenic they offered condolences adjacent to the precise spot wherever she recovered her daughter's body.

The origin of Alexandra Castano's decease remains nether investigation, but her household suspects foul play.

"One-hundred percent my sister would never, she wasn't doing immoderate drugs...someone did thing to my sister and nary one's helping," the victim's sister Cristina Benitez said.

Around 8 p.m. Monday night, the 24-year-old told her parent she was going out. A fractional hr aboriginal she texted that she was headed backmost home, but her parent said she ne'er returned.

Lucia Castano discovered her daughter's lifeless assemblage the adjacent greeting successful the vestibule of the location connected Summit Avenue.

"It's similar idiosyncratic enactment her there," Castano said.

Mount Vernon constabulary person not labeled Castano's decease arsenic a homicide. The household says preliminary autopsy results showed nary grounds of trauma nor a aesculapian episode.

But the household wants answers.

"How does a 24-year-old conscionable dice close successful beforehand of her house, and nary 1 knows what happened," Benitez said.

According to the aesculapian examiner, the origin of decease is pending. The household says they are delaying making ceremonial arrangements due to the fact that they are readying a second, autarkic autopsy.

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