{"id":151902,"date":"2026-03-04T02:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151902\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:45:31","slug":"man-75-found-dead-with-throat-cut-outside-his-astoria-queens-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151902\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 75, found dead with throat cut outside his Astoria, Queens, apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 75-year-old man was stabbed to death in the hallway outside his Queens apartment on Tuesday, cops said.<\/p>\n

George Dourdounas\u2019s lifeless body was found just steps from his first-floor apartment on 33rd St. building near 28th Ave. in Astoria<\/a> around 1:40 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n

A law enforcement source said the victim was slashed repeatedly.<\/p>\n

A neighbor said he was sleeping in his first-floor apartment down the hall from where the victim lived when he heard his desperate screams for help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard somebody saying, \u2018Help me. Help me.\u2019 But it was very muted. It blended into my dreams,\u201d the 55-year-old neighbor, who gave his name as Ray, told the Daily News. \u201cThen I heard my neighbor, this lady, was screaming, hysterical, crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ray said Dourdounas was a retired high school math teacher who recently earned his PhD and was planning a return to academia as a college professor before he was killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted to teach in college because he taught in high school and the kids didn\u2019t care,\u201d said the victim\u2019s neighbor. \u201cHe said, \u2018I got my PhD, and there\u2019s no age limit for retirement and college teaching, so I can apply for college.\u2019 And that\u2019s what he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge was a very nice person,\u201d Ray added. \u201cHe never bothered anybody. And he came home and he got killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were no arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 75-year-old man was stabbed to death in the hallway outside his Queens apartment on Tuesday, cops said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-151902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151902","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=151902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}