PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police in Rhode Island struggled to locate an elderly homeless woman after a caller reported she was trapped in a snow-covered car with her dead son — and two weeks later, both were found dead in a parking lot outside a hospital.
The pair, identified by Providence police as 75-year-old Irina Kozak and her 49-year-old son, Stanislaw Kozak, had been living in their white Kia for about a year, according to a police call log obtained by Nexstar’s WPRI.
A Providence police spokesperson said their deaths were weather-related, with underlying health issues also a factor. The initial call came in the evening of Jan. 28, when temperatures had dropped into the single digits, according to the National Weather Service…