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Elderly Woman Found Dead From Multiple Stab Wounds

Police made startling discovery at 85-year-old woman's Jefferson Avenue home on Friday.

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The New York Police Department is investigating the death of an 85-year-old woman found unconscious and unresponsive in her Jefferson Avenue apartment in Bed-Stuy on Friday.

Officers discovered the woman, identified by police as Gloria Cadet, at 872 Jefferson St. at 7:50 a.m. Cadet was later declared dead on arrival by paramedics, police said.

Upon further investigation, police said they discovered Cadet had been stabbed multiple times in the neck and torso.

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Police are investigating Cadet's death as a homicide.

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