A 41-year-old man believed to be an worker was discovered lifeless inside Staten Island’s iconic Ralph’s Italian Ices store over the weekend, cops and sources stated.
The person was found unconscious and unresponsive within the rear of the store on Port Richmond Avenue close to Catherine Road round 9:50 a.m. Saturday, police stated.
The person, whose id has not been launched pending household notification, was pronounced lifeless on the scene by responding EMS staff.
He seems to have labored on the institution, police sources stated.
The town health worker’s workplace will formally decide how he died, and no particulars had been instantly identified on the circumstances.
The store quickly closed on Saturday following the incident, and reopened on Sunday, in line with a Fb put up.
The family-run Port Richmond Ralph’s Italian Ices first opened in 1949, and it has since developed into a series with a number of different places opening throughout town and the tri-state space.
The favored eatery has since performed host to the Staten Island-born Wu-Tang Clan, who filmed a section for his or her Hulu manufacturing, “Wu-Tang: An American Saga” there in 2019.
That very same yr, a scene was additionally filmed at Ralph’s for the 2020 darkish comedy-drama flick “King of Staten Island,” directed by Judd Apatow and starring Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei and Invoice Burr.
