Lauren Carol Smith Television reporters interview a local about Eason Alonzio, a disabled man who was left in a van and died after six hours yesterday.The police have confirmed to The Local East Village that the developmentally disabled man who died in the back of a van after being left there for six hours on Tuesday was a resident of the neighborhood. News vans are currently clogging East Fifth Street.
The 48-year-old, Eason Alonzio, was part of a group of disabled people driven to a daytime activity at 2082 Lexington Avenue in East Harlem at around 9 a.m, according to The Times.
The group got out of the van operated by AHRC New York City, but somehow Mr. Alonzio was left behind.
The police said that at around 2 p.m. the resident of 224 East Fifth Street, was found dead in a backseat.
A cause of death has not yet been determined. On Tuesday the temperature reached a high of 91 degrees.
