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15-Year-Old Girl Found Dead Outside Queens Home

Jess Wisloski

By Jess Wisloski on February 17, 2013 6:31pm

A 15-year-old girl was found dead in a Rosedale home on Feb. 17, 2013.

DNAinfo

ROSEDALE — A 15-year-old girl was found mysteriously dead in front of a Queens home early Sunday morning, police said.

Aeisha Sarooqui, 15, of Kew Gardens Hills, was found unresponsive by cops who showed up at a house on 135th Avenue near 245th Street after a 911 call, police said.

She did not appear to have suffered from any trauma, police said, and rescuers declared her dead at the scene.

Cops said an investigation was ongoing, and a medical examiner's report was not yet available on Sunday evening.

 

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