NYC man turns up dead in car after parents reported he was being held for $10K ransom: sources

A 36-year-old man was found dead in his car in Queens late Sunday after his parents reported he’d been kidnapped and was being held for a $10,000 ransom, cops and sources said. 

The lifeless man was discovered slumped behind the wheel of his black Honda Civic around 10:15 p.m., while the car was parked at the corner of 123rd Street and 89th Avenue in Richmond Hill, authorities and sources said. 

He was pronounced dead a short time later at the scene, cops said. 

The body was found two hours after the man’s parents showed up at the NYPD’s 106th Precinct station house in South Ozone Park and reported that they had received multiple phone calls claiming that their son had been kidnapped, according to the sources.

The parents told police that the caller or callers demanded $10,000 to release the couple’s son, sources said. 

Cops managed to track his license plate to the scene nearly 1 miles away, according to the sources. 

The man’s body showed no visible signs of trauma, the sources said. 

The city medical examiner’s office will make an official ruling on the circumstances of his death, cops said.