{"id":182408,"date":"2026-04-01T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182408\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:54:49","slug":"young-couple-shot-dead-in-queens-apartment-in-apparent-murder-suicide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182408\/","title":{"rendered":"Young couple shot dead in Queens apartment in apparent murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;police&quot;}\" class=\"link \">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two were heard arguing inside an apartment on 84th St. near 34th Ave. in Jackson Heights about 1:50 a.m. when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/23\/port-authority-officer-gunman-who-killed-sister-in-bronx-murder-suicide-accused-of-not-caring-for-aging-mother\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:several shots went off;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;several shots went off&quot;}\" class=\"link \">several shots went off<\/a>, a police source said. The man\u2019s 19-year-old brother \u2014 who was inside the apartment but in another room \u2014 and a neighbor called 911 when they heard the shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police believe the man shot his girlfriend, then turned the gun on himself. Their names were not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The murder weapon along with bullets were recovered by cops from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There was no immediately indication that cops had been called to the apartment before to calm disputes between the couple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jessicaramosqns\/status\/2039298645393068266\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:possible murder-suicide connected to domestic violence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;possible murder-suicide connected to domestic violence&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10400,14034,9,24,63,11232,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-182408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-jackson-heights","9":"tag-murder-suicide","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-police-source","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182408","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=182408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}