Cops investigate death of man found under mattress in NYC hotel
NEW YORK - New York City police are investigating the death of a man found unconscious with a head injury, under a mattress at a hotel blocks from the Empire State Building.
Officers were called to the Hilton Garden Inn on West 35th Street at around 4 a.m. Monday. Police say the unresponsive man had suffered trauma to the back of his head.
He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Investigators and medical examiners are working to determine how he died. Police believe he was in his 30s.
The man was part of a group of people seen entering the hotel earlier, police told WCBS 880. When the others were seen running out of the hotel around 4 a.m., police were called, reports the station.
Authorities said there had been two noise complaints about the room prior to the victim being discovered, according to CBS New York.
A hotel manager didn't immediately returned a call for comment.
The 298-room hotel is near Herald Square and Penn Station in a part of midtown Manhattan bustling with both tourists and business travelers.