{"id":179560,"date":"2026-03-30T11:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179560\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:56:27","slug":"news-12-westchester-rikers-island-inmate-dies-at-queens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179560\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Rikers Island inmate dies at Queens hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rikers Island inmate died Sunday morning at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Corrections says 49-year-old John Price was being held without bail for drug trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the hospital in need of medical attention and later pronounced dead at 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>His exact cause of death was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>He is the second Rikers Island inmate to die within the last four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Rikers Island inmate died Sunday morning at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, according to officials. The Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[38906,9,24,63,122,124,123,1083],"class_list":["post-179560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-inmate-death","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rikers-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179560","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=179560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}