{"id":184896,"date":"2026-04-03T21:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184896\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:57:32","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-595","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184896\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crime scene where 35-year-old Ramon Vasquez was stabbed was turned into a memorial on Friday, honoring the Mexican native. <\/p>\n<p>Vasquez was found with a stab wound late Saturday, March 28, outside of a pink and green truck at 3201 Webster Ave. <\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is my son, who they took from me,&#8221; said Vasquez&#8217;s mother, Efigenia Barrera.<\/p>\n<p>Barrera and Vasquez\u2019s father, Hodilo Vasquez, spoke exclusively to News 12 about the grief and questions they have unanswered about their son&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what kills me inside, because we are left asking ourselves, &#8216;What happened?\u2019\u201d said Barrera. <\/p>\n<p>Hodilo Vasquez said he was called to the 52 precinct, where he was told his son was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives also showed him a picture of a man and woman, whom he could not identify. <\/p>\n<p>He was never told if the two individuals were involved in the crime. <\/p>\n<p>As speculations arise of who was there the night of Vasquez&#8217;s death, a man named Jeremy told News 12 on Monday that he knew the 35-year-old. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know anyone who says they were a friend of my son, because he was very private,&#8221; said Barrera.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators told News 12 the investigation is still ongoing, and no arrests have been made. <\/p>\n<p>Police have not shared a description of who they are looking for at this time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crime scene where 35-year-old Ramon Vasquez was stabbed was turned into a memorial on Friday, honoring the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,3316,9951,16523,2106,9,24,11038,63,260,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-184896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-deadly-stabbing","10":"tag-fatal-stabbing","11":"tag-memorial","12":"tag-mexico","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-norwood","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-stabbing","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184896","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=184896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}