{"id":262655,"date":"2026-06-11T00:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262655\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:53:40","slug":"news-12-bronx-police-identify-longwood-homicide-victim-found-stabbed-to-death-in-his-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262655\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Police Identify Longwood Homicide Victim Found Stabbed To Death In His Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have identified the victim of <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/longwood-landlord-says-worker-found-man-dead-with-knife-in-his-chest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">homicide in Longwood.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say Reginald Copeland, 64, was found dead with a stab wound to his chest inside his apartment at 1006 Longfellow Ave. just before 11:30 p.m. on June 3. The buildings landlord told News 12 a construction worker made the discovery.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;He was discovered with a knife in his chest, I believe,&#8221; the landlord said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/police-release-images-of-attacker-wanted-for-killing-man-inside-longwood-apartment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a video <\/a>of the man they are looking for the following day, who the landlord says is Copeland&#8217;s roommate. He told News 12 the man was living with the 64-year-old&#8217;s body for days before taking off.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors told News 12 that they had been complaining about a strong odor coming from the apartment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The same Longfellow Avenue building made headlines in 2018, after a couple was charged in the <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/timeline-the-killing-of-lisa-maria-velasquez-39005226\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death and dismemberment of 25-year-old Lisa Marie Velasquez.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s got to be haunted or something. Something is going on there,&#8221; a neighbor said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Copeland&#8217;s alleged killer remains on the run as of Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have identified the victim of homicide in Longwood. They say Reginald Copeland, 64, was found dead with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-262655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262655","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=262655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}