{"id":141822,"date":"2026-02-22T15:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141822\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:18:06","slug":"man-fatally-bashed-in-head-in-his-bronx-apartment-building-suspect-arrested-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141822\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally bashed in head in his Bronx apartment building, suspect arrested for murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx man died six days after being bashed in the head in his Bronx apartment building \u2014 and cops have arrested a suspect for murder, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Rivera, 44, was struck in the head with a blunt object in an apartment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doe.org\/blog\/the-doe-fund-opens-affordable-supportive-housing-for-veterans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Muller Residences<\/a> in Wakefield about 7 p.m. Jan. 21, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera lived in the building on Neried Ave. near Bullard Ave., which provides affordable and supportive housing for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed Rivera unconscious and unresponsive to Jacobi Medical Center, where he died Jan. 27. The city Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide on Feb. 6 after conducting an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 14, cops arrested Richard Vasquez, 37, for murder. Vasquez lives a few blocks away from the Muller Residences, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera was ordered held without bail after being arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court. He is due back in court March 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx man died six days after being bashed in the head in his Bronx apartment building \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-141822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-new-york-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc-crime","21":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141822","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=141822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}