NEW YORK — There are no signs that a crime was committed in the death of the first black woman on New York State’s highest court, police say Thursday after her body was found on the bank of the Hudson River.
Medical examiners are still planning to perform an autopsy on 65-year-old Sheila Abdus-Salaam.
The New York City police harbor unit retrieved her body from the Hudson on Wednesday, a day after she was reported missing.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who appointed Abdus-Salaam to the state’s Court of Appeals in 2013, calls her a “trailblazing jurist.”
Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam looks on as members of the state Senate Judiciary Committee vote unanimously to advance her nomination to fill a vacancy on the Court of Appeals at the Capitol in Albany, New York, on April 30, 2013. (AP/Mike Groll)
“As the first African-American woman to be appointed to the state’s Court of Appeals, she was a pioneer,” Cuomo says. “Through her writings, her wisdom and her unshakable moral compass, she was a force for good whose legacy will be felt for years to come.”
— AP
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