Drexyll Tolstoy: Missing tattoo artist found dead near last known location in NYC

NYPD also stated that Drexyll Tolstoy's body was discovered with injuries that suggest a fall from an elevated location

UPDATED APR 10, 2023

Drexyll Tolstoy, 27, went missing in September 2022 (NYPD)

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Drexyll Tolstoy, the tattoo artist from NYC who had been reported missing, has been found dead. His decomposed body was discovered only a few steps away from where he was last seen six months ago. Tolstoy’s remains were behind a building at 39 W 32nd St in New York City, according to The New York Daily News and WestSideRag.com. The body was found "with injuries indicative of falling from an elevated position," said a spokesperson for the New York Police Department (NYPD) in a statement.

Drexyll's mother Kellie Tolstoy said the 17-story commercial building had a dedicated tattoo parlor where her son worked prior to his death. She told Daily News on Saturday, April 9, "How was he found right there? He was there the whole time." she told the Daily News on Saturday. "He's been laying there for six months", she added. Police had earlier said that Drexyll was last seen on September 25, near West 106th Street and Columbus Avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side, reports CW affiliate WPIX.

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'Told me that he was at the movies...'

Drexyll was living on the Upper West Side before being reported missing. His girlfriend of 10 years, Kristian Gonzalez told Daily News, that he was planning on watching the movie 'Bullet Train' the night he was last seen. "He told me that he was at the movies around 9 or so, and that was the last I heard of him," Gonzalez told the outlet. However, the police in its investigation found there were no movies shown at that time.

'It shouldn't take six months'

According to the mother Kellie, Drexyll was struggling with relationship issues and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. He had also switched his medication, which he used to take for mood. On September 25, during a call, Drexyll told her that he ‘couldn’t go back’ to the apartment he was sharing with Gonzalez on the Upper West Side.

"It shouldn't take six months to find someone hundreds of feet away from where they disappeared," Kellie wrote in an update on the family's GoFundMe campaign, which was started to search for the missing 27-year-old.