QUEENS — The grandmother who was found dead and wrapped in plastic bags inside her Ridgewood home was strangled, officials said Tuesday.
NYPD officers were checking on Erika Kraus-Breslin, 85, when they met her son, Christopher Fuhrer, 30, at their home on 65th Street, near 68th Avenue, about 3:15 p.m. on Oct. 5, officials said.
He showed them to the bedroom where they found Kraus-Breslin's body swaddled in plastic bags.
Fuhrer was arrested for not reporting her death, handling the body without a permit, improper burial and concealing a human corpse, police said.
On Tuesday, the city's medical examiner ruled the grandmother's death a homicide by strangulation, police said.
Fuhrer's charges weren't immediately upgraded, an NYPD spokesman said Wednesday morning.
Fuhrer, who's being held at the Brooklyn Detention Complex on $35,000 bail, is due back in court later Wednesday, jail and court records show.
