New York City police have a man in custody in the death of actress Adrienne Shelly, who was found hanging from a shower rod in her West Village office last Wednesday, CBS 2 News has learned.
Sources tell CBS 2′s Ti-Hua Chang a construction worker has allegedly confessed to the crime.
The worker allegedly punched the 5-foot-2 actress after she complained about the noise he was making in the West Village building where her office is located, killing her.
He then allegedly admitted to dragging the body up to her office, and positioning her in the shower to make her death look like a suicide.
The medical examiner’s office had not yet ruled whether the death of the petite actress best known for her roles in the Hal Hartley films “Trust” and “The Unbelievable Truth” was a homicide or a suicide.
Police had been hesitant to label the case a suicide after no suicide note was found and sneaker prints that didn’t match Shelly’s shoes were found in the bathtub.
Shelly, whose birth name was Adrienne Levine, was found Wednesday evening hanging from a shower rod in the bathtub of a Greenwich Village apartment, by her husband Andy Ostoy.
Shelly, who was born in Queens and grew up on Long Island, also had a 3-year-old daughter Sophie.
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