{"id":217423,"date":"2026-05-02T02:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217423\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:36:20","slug":"police-called-to-nyc-home-that-promptly-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217423\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Called to NYC Home That Promptly Explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n A middle-of-the-night domestic call in Queens ended with a house blowing up, CBS News<\/a> reports. NYPD bodycam footage released Thursday shows officers stepping up to the front door of a South Richmond Hill home just before a fireball erupts, knocking several of them off their feet and sending glass flying into the street. At least seven officers and multiple residents were injured; all the officers are expected to recover. A body believed to be that of the suspect, 50-year-old Anoop Parasram, was later found in the rubble. Parasram is the estranged husband of a woman who lived at the address, ABC 7<\/a> reports. \n <\/p>\n


\n Police say the chain of events began around 3am, when a family member reported smelling gas and said Parasram, allegedly drunk and armed with a knife, had forced his way in through a basement window. His daughter and two grandchildren fled, and his wife escaped after being threatened, officials said. About 15 minutes after the 911 call, the explosion triggered a five-alarm fire that engulfed the house and damaged neighboring homes, displacing more than a dozen people. Parasram had three expired protective orders against him, all filed by a resident of the home, and there was a history of police calls to the home, NBC New York<\/a> reports. The cause of the blast remains under investigation, but officials believe Parasram set himself on fire and the blaze was gas-fed. \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A middle-of-the-night domestic call in Queens ended with a house blowing up, CBS News reports. NYPD bodycam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27259,9,24,56,63,65,64,122,32656],"class_list":["post-217423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-domestic-dispute","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens","tag-red-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217423","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=217423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}