 NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Police are trying to identify the body of a man who washed up along a Brooklyn beach wrapped in plastic bags with his arms tied around his back, his feet in “cement shoes.” 
 
 New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Tuesday the victim had his feet “submerged in poured concrete.” 
 
 He said it was obviously a homicide and officials were investigating. Chief Boyce said the police would release a sketch of the man and his tattoo of the Virgin Mary holding a rose. “His feet were submerged in poured concrete, obviously a homicide.” 
 
 The unidentified man’s body was found around 10:30 a.m. on Monday by a student at Kingsborough Community College who was walking on the campus shoreline along Sheepshead Bay, the police said. The medical examiner will determine how the man died and how long he had been in the water.
– Police are trying to identify the body of a man who washed ashore in New York City with his arms tied behind his back and his feet encased in concrete, the AP reports. At a news conference Tuesday in Queens, Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said that the body was wrapped in plastic bags and that they're dealing with what is "obviously a homicide," per the New York Times. The body was found Monday by a student at Kingsborough Community College who was taking a morning stroll on campus along Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. Authorities hope an autopsy will help determine how long the man had been in the water and how he died. Per the Times, it's "not uncommon" for bodies to suddenly emerge from the waters of NYC, especially in the spring, when warmer weather speeds up decomposition and, hence, increases the amount of resulting gases that make corpses float to the surface. But it isn't every day that one shows up wearing what CBS New York calls "cement shoes," which the Times notes has long been said "to be a favorite of mob hit men with plenty of patience," since concrete takes a long time to dry. The victim has a large tattoo of the Virgin Mary holding a rose, which police hope will help identify him. He was wearing gray sweatpants, blue boxer shorts, and a black jacket.