Man found with fatal injury under mattress in NYC hotel identified; investigation continues

People leave the Hilton Garden Inn, in New York, Monday, May 18, 2015. New York City police are investigating the death of a man found unconscious, with a head injury, under a mattress at the hotel, blocks from the Empire State Building. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (The Associated Press)

New York City police have identified the man found fatally injured under a mattress at a hotel blocks from the Empire State Building.

Police said Tuesday that 28-year-old Roderick Goodwin of Bridgeton, New Jersey, suffered trauma to the back of his head.

Officers were called to the Hilton Garden Inn on West 35th Street at around 4 a.m. Monday. Goodwin was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Investigators and medical examiners are working to determine how he died. No arrests have been made but the death is being treated as a crime.

A hotel manager hasn't immediately returned a call.

The 298-room hotel is near Herald Square and Penn Station in a part of midtown Manhattan bustling with both tourists and business travelers.

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