{"id":229618,"date":"2026-05-13T05:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229618\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:15:20","slug":"st-clair-county-coroner-names-victim-in-brooklyn-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229618\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Clair County coroner names victim in Brooklyn homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026.05.12_Brooklyn homicide-5.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Illinois State Police canvas door-to-door at the scene of a homicide in the Thomas Terry Apartments complex in Brooklyn on Tuesday.\" alt=\"Illinois State Police canvas door-to-door at the scene of a homicide in the Thomas Terry Apartments complex in Brooklyn on Tuesday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Illinois State Police canvas door-to-door at the scene of a homicide in the Thomas Terry Apartments complex in Brooklyn on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>                Joshua Carter<\/p>\n<p>            Belleville News-Democrat<\/p>\n<p>    Brooklyn<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are conducting a homicide investigation after a 37-year-old woman was found dead Tuesday in her apartment in the village of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. identified the victim as Dolnesha A. Jones.<\/p>\n<p>She was pronounced dead at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday inside her residence in the Thomas Terry Apartments, a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sccha.org\/our_properties.php\">public housing complex<\/a> in the 600 block of South Sixth Street<\/p>\n<p>Dye said her cause of death appears to be suffocation. An autopsy is pending.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/isp.illinois.gov\/CriminalInvestigations\/Zone6\">Illinois State Police responded<\/a> to the scene on Tuesday afternoon and canvassed the area. An agency spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Police Chief Tony Tomlinson also could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026.05.12_Brooklyn homicide.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"2026.05.12_Brooklyn homicide.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow police tape blocks off the scene of a suspected homicide at the Thomas Terry apartment complex in Brooklyn on Tuesday.\"\/>                                                                                    Yellow police tape blocks off the scene of a suspected homicide at the Thomas Terry apartment complex in Brooklyn on Tuesday.                                                                                            Joshua Carter                                                                            Belleville News-Democrat                                                                                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois State Police canvas door-to-door at the scene of a homicide in the Thomas Terry Apartments complex in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-229618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229618","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=229618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}