Drexyll Tolstoy, a 27-year-old tattoo artist from New York City, was last seen six months ago but he’s now been found after going missing
His body was found just a few steps away from where he was last seen.
This has left his family and friends very sad. The New York Daily News and WestSideRag.com reported that Tolstoy’s rotting body was found behind a building at 39 W 32nd St. A spokesman for the New York Police Department (NYPD) said that the injuries on his body showed that he had fallen from a high place.
Missing tattoo artist Drexyll Tolstoy found dead in NYC in latest update, cause of death, obituary, age and bio
On September 25, 2022, Drexyll Tolstoy was reported stolen near West 106th Street and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He had lived in the area for 10 years with his lover, Kristian Gonzalez. Gonzalez says that Tolstoy told her that the night he was last seen, he was going to watch the movie “Bullet Train.” But when the cops looked into it, they found that no movies were being shown at that time.
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The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating missing 26 year old Drexyll Tolstoy. He was last seen on 09/25/22, leaving Black Fish Tattoo, located on Upper West Side Manhattan, NY. pic.twitter.com/s79Db3etqv— The AWARE Foundation (@aware_the) December 30, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Drexyll Tolstoy’s mother, Kellie, said that her son was having trouble with his relationships and was depressed. He had also changed the medicine he took to help with his mood. During a phone call on September 25, Drexyll told her that he “couldn’t go back” to the Upper West Side flat he shared with Gonzalez.
The NYPD never watched the surveillance tape that would've solved the disappearance of Drexyll Tolstoy & would've spared his family some suffering. And were rude to his mom. How much is the NYPD budget again? https://t.co/Z42xlEWWR5#DrexyllTolstoy#Missing #MissingPersons pic.twitter.com/Lg2BVPAbEr
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“It shouldn’t take six months to find someone hundreds of feet away from where they disappeared,” Kellie wrote in an update on the family’s GoFundMe effort, which was started to look for the missing 27-year-old.
Family and friends of Drexyll Tolstoy seek answers in his mysterious death
Tolstoy’s family and friends have a lot of questions now that his body has been found, especially about how he died. His mother told The New York Daily News that there was a tattoo parlour in the 17-story building where Tolstoy worked. “How was he found right there? He was there the whole time,” she said. “He’s been laying there for six months.”
The NYPD is still looking into Tolstoy’s death, and they haven’t said anything more about it yet. At the same time, Drexyll Tolstoy’s family and friends are still sad about his death and trying to come to terms with how terrible it was.