{"id":182116,"date":"2026-04-01T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182116\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:31:40","slug":"young-couple-shot-dead-in-queens-apartment-in-apparent-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182116\/","title":{"rendered":"Young couple shot dead in Queens apartment in apparent murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 20-year-old man and his 18-year-old girlfriend were shot dead in a Queens apartment early Wednesday in what is being investigated as a murder-suicide, police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

The two were heard arguing inside an apartment on 84th St. near 34th Ave. in Jackson Heights about 1:50 a.m. when several shots went off<\/a>, a police source said. Both a family member inside the apartment and a neighbor called 911.<\/p>\n

When police responded, they found the young woman dead from gunshots to the head, chest, and stomach. Her boyfriend suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n

Police believe the man shot his girlfriend, then turned the gun on himself. Their names were not immediately released.<\/p>\n

Both of them died at the scene. The city Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy on both of them to confirm how they died.<\/p>\n

The murder weapon along with bullets were recovered by cops from the scene.<\/p>\n

There was no immediately indication that cops had been called to the apartment before to calm disputes between the couple.<\/p>\n

\u201cDevastating news out of Jackson Heights early this morning,\u201d State Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-Queens) wrote on X. \u201cTwo very young people are dead in what authorities are investigating as a possible murder-suicide connected to domestic violence<\/a> \u2026 Domestic violence is real and too often escalates to tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man and his 18-year-old girlfriend were shot dead in a Queens apartment early Wednesday in what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4292,"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-182116","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\/182116","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=182116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182116\/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=182116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}