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A missing tattoo artist has been found dead near where he was last seen nearly six months ago.
Drexyll Tolstoy’s body was discovered April 3 behind a building at 39 W. 32nd St. in New York City, according toThe New York Daily NewsandWestSideRag.com.
Drexyll’s mother Kellie Tolstoy told theDaily Newsthat the 17-story commercial building is home to the tattoo parlor where her son worked prior to his death.
“How was he found right there? He was there the whole time,” she told theDaily Newson Saturday. “He’s been laying there for six months.”
Police originally said Drexyll was last seen on Sept. 25 near West 106th Street and Columbus Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, according toCW affiliate WPIX.
He was living on the Upper West Side at the time of his disappearance.
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Kristian Gonzalez, 27, previouslytold theDaily Newsthat her boyfriend of 10 years was planning to see the movieBullet Trainthe night he was last seen.
“He told me that he was at the movies around 9 or so, and that was the last I heard of him,” Gonzalez told the outlet. However, police said there was no showing of the film at that time.
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Gonzalez reported her boyfriend missing the following morning after noticing he did not report to work, per the report.
Drexyll was on medications for his mood, and had switched his medication the week prior to his disappearance, Kellie told theDaily News. She said her son had struggled with relationship issues and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kellie had called her son the night of Sept. 25 to check in on how he was adjusting to the new medication, per the report. During the conversation, Drexyll said he “couldn’t go back” to the apartment he shared with Gonzalez on the Upper West Side.
Four months later, Drexyll’s body was found not far from where he was last seen.
“It shouldn’t take six months to find someone hundreds of feet away from where they disappeared,” Kellie wrote in an update on the family’sGoFundMe campaign, which was started in hopes of locating the missing man.
The cause of Drexyll’s death has not been revealed.
source: people.com
