Pictured: Janina Glasov. Photo via LinkedIn

UPDATE, July 7, 5 p.m.: The NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner has confirmed the victim's identity as 25-year-old Bushwick resident Janina Glasov. Her cause of death has yet to be determined, spokesman Julie Bolcer said, "pending further studies." Original story below.

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — A 25-year-old woman living at 1465 Bushwick Ave., near the park, was discovered unconscious on her bedroom floor late Tuesday afternoon with a bloody nose, according to the New York City Police Department (NYPD). She was declared dead later that evening, police said.

The NYPD had not yet released the woman's identity or her suspected cause of death by Wednesday evening. However, the New York Post, citing inside police sources and the victim's mother, identified the young woman as Janina Glasov, a San Francisco native and Hampshire College journalism major who had reportedly been planning to move back to the West Coast on the same day she was found dead.

A spoon, a hypodermic needle and an empty bag marked "MONSTER HIGH" that had apparently contained heroin were found next to her body, the Post reported. (The NYPD's press office could not confirm these details.)

"I'm just shocked by this," Michael Lesy, a literary journalism professor at Hampshire College who worked closely with Glasov, said over the phone Wednesday.

"This was not just another kid pumped out of a journalism program," he said. "This is a person who had unusual spirit and talent as a writer." A woman who identified herself as Glasov's mom, but who declined to give her name, told the Post: "I just think every journalist out there should be doing something about these killer drugs that are out there. We can't ignore this."