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Cyanide in Sheepshead Bay Apartment Where Man and Woman Found Dead: Police

By Janon Fisher | October 20, 2014 5:57pm | Updated on October 21, 2014 8:37am
 Police found cyanide in the Brooklyn apartment where a man and woman were found dead just after noon on Monday, police said.
Police found cyanide in the Brooklyn apartment where a man and woman were found dead just after noon on Monday, police said.
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SHEEPSHEAD BAY — Police found the bodies of a Texas woman and a Brooklyn man along with some cyanide in his Sheepshead Bay apartment just after noon Monday, NYPD officials said.

Investigators are pointing to suicide.

Michael Huhem, 43, was found on the sofa of the fifth-floor apartment in the Grecian Gardens complex at 3030 Emmons Ave. while Kimberly Owens, 44, lay dead on the floor, police and fire officials said.

There were no gunshot or stab wounds on the couple and no signs of a struggle in the apartment, an NYPD spokesman said.

They were pronounced dead on scene, police said. The medical examiner's office will determine their causes of death.

Owens' last known address was in Crosby, Texas, and investigators were still trying to figure out how she knew Huhem, an NYPD spokesman said.

Police said there was no criminality involved.