DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN (WABC) -- An 80-year-old mother and her 52-year-old son were discovered dead inside a Downtown Brooklyn apartment.

Residents called reporting a foul odor in the Jay Street apartment just before 1 p.m. Wednesday.

"Yesterday we found out that she was dead because my son went to the doorman and said, the smell is terrible abomination," said the victim's neighbor Mireyda Reyes.

Both were pronounced dead on the scene and appeared to be dead for some time.

The mother had died first and was in an advanced stage of decomposition.

Neither had any trauma and there is no criminality suspected in their deaths, but now neighbors want to know when and how their neighbors died.

"I went to the office and I complained, I said, 'You have to come and check it out because there's some

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