Heroin Overdose Kills NYU Doctor In Park Ave Apartment: Report

GRAMERCY, NY — A professor at the NYU Langone Medical Center was found dead in his Park Avenue apartment on Tuesday, apparently killed by a heroin overdose, police sources told the New York Daily News.

Dr. Ravindra Rajmane was found in his Gramercy apartment on Tuesday morning, a police spokesman confirmed to Patch. Rajmane, 51, hadn't been seen by coworkers since Friday, sources said. He was believed to have been dead for at least two days when his body was found.

A maintenance worker and a colleague found Rajmane in his bedroom when the colleague came to his apartment, near East 27th Street, to check on him, the Daily News reported. Police sources told the Daily News there were small, square envelopes with heroin residue near his body. The envelopes were reportedly stamped with the logo "Knock Out King."

Rajmane was a specialist in pulmonary medicine and critical care, according to his biography on the NYU website.

The NYC medical examiner's office has not yet determined how Rajmane died. An NYPD spokesman could not confirm that heroin was suspected in Rajmane's death.

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