By Rebecca Henely
The city medical examiner said Tuesday the death of a 53-year-old man in his Jackson Heights home was a homicide.
David Rangel, of 91st Street and 32nd Avenue, was found to have died from compression in the neck and torso, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner said.
No arrests have been made in his death. Police received the 911 call Sunday at 6:45 p.m., the NYPD said.
Rangel was originally born in Monterrey, Mexico, and worked at PS/MS 219 at 144-39 Gravett Road in Flushing teaching Spanish to seventh and eighth graders. The biography on his school website said he lived in Houston for many years, where he taught and received a master’s degree in Spanish literature.
“I am very happy to be part of this wonderful professional community,” Rangel wrote on his PS/MS 219 website. “The students at 219 are also very special to me.”
Rangel’s body was found shortly after Michael Infante, 24, was found dead inside a home on 59th Place near the Brooklyn Queens Expressway close to the Woodside/Maspeth border, the NYPD said. Police discovered his body after a 911 call came in at 10:15 Saturday and pronounced Infante dead at the scene, the authorities said.
The medical examiner did not find any criminality in the case of Infante’s death, police said.
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