The 65-year-old was last seen wearing a charcoal gray zip-up sweatshirt with "Canada" in red letters across the chest.
The NYPD harbor unit retrieved Abdus-Salaam's body from the Hudson River last Wednesday, a day after she was reported missing.
The NYPD said it would treat the death of Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first black woman to serve on New York's top court, as suspicious because there was no immediate indication of suicide or criminality.
The Medical Examiner's Office hasn't determined the cause and manner of her death, but sources said an autopsy found water in her lungs, suggesting she was alive when she went into the river.
The information request was tweeted out by the NYPD's 26th Precinct, which patrols the area of Harlem where Abdus-Salaam's body was found.
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Police sources told CBS2 Abdus-Salaam's family and friends said the judge had been struggling with depression. It appears a lack of leads in the case has led police to call her death suspicious. She started her career as a staff attorney for East Brooklyn Legal Services. Governor Andrew Cuomo once praised Abdus-Salaam for her deep understanding of the everyday issues facing New Yorkers, many of those same people now mourning her loss.
"As the first African-American woman to be appointed to the state's Court of Appeals, she was a pioneer", Cuomo said. "Through her writings, her wisdom and her unshakable moral compass, she was a force for good whose legacy will be felt for years to come".
Her seemingly inexplicable death hit those who knew the judge like a physical shock.
During a press conference last week, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told reporters that it's "too early to tell" whether the judge took her own life.
Filling Abdus-Salaam's seat will nearly certainly require the state Senate to return after the scheduled June 21 end of the 2017 session to vote on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nominee - if, that is, he and the legislative chamber wish to stick to the statutory deadlines, something that they have not done uniformly in recent years.
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