When Junior Sharpe’s wife brought their elderly neighbor dinner on Sunday evening, they never thought she’d wander outside afterward.
But 90-year-old Doreen Ellis, who had dementia, according to family and neighbors, unexpectedly left her Crown Heights apartment at some point overnight and walked halfway down the block.
Ellis somehow got into the backyard of another building on New York Avenue near Sterling Place, where she was discovered dead in the snow Monday morning. She was wearing only her blue nightgown, a headscarf and one sock, Sharpe said, and a small white shawl lay on the ground next to her…