MAHWAH, N.J.—Authorities say children returning home from school found the snow-covered body of a neighbor who apparently died while shoveling snow during the weekend storm.
Mahwah police say 64-year-old Mary Wall apparently died on Saturday but was not found until Monday afternoon. They say she was holding a shovel in her hand.
A cause of death has not been determined. But authorities say the death is not considered suspicious.
The children who found Wall initially thought someone had left a jacket in the snow. But they soon discovered it was Wall, whose body was barely visible amid the several inches of snow that had fallen.
People clear snow from parked cars on Henry Street in the Chinatown neighborhood in New York on Jan. 24, 2016. Millions of Americans began digging out Sunday from a mammoth blizzard that set a new single-day snowfall record in Washington and New York City. AP Photo/Peter Morgan
