QUEENS, NY \u2014 More than two years after a man was found dying on an East Elmhurst street, his death was ruled a homicide, police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jose Vasquez, 52, was walking two blocks from his home on 32nd Avenue near 101st Street around 4 a.m. on June 8, 2023, when two men crept up from behind and struck him repeatedly, police said.<\/p>\n
The random attack left Vasquez with a severe head injury. Hospitalized in critical condition, he clung to life for more than two years before dying on Nov. 27, 2025, police said.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide.<\/p>\n
Six weeks after the assault, police arrested 18-year-old Jassan Abrams of the Bronx on charges of attempted murder, robbery and assault, officials said.<\/p>\n
Abrams, a member of the \u201c5zzly\u201d crew, a Bronx-based subset of the Blood Hounds Brims gang that operates across New York City and Long Island, was ultimately convicted of robbery and is currently serving a prison sentence, records show.<\/p>\n
The second suspect remains at large, police added.<\/p>\n
No further arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 More than two years after a man was found dying on an East Elmhurst street,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-139024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}