{"id":28950,"date":"2025-11-05T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28950\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:25:08","slug":"cops-probe-how-woman-was-shot-in-head-in-nycha-hells-kitchen-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28950\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops probe how woman was shot in head in\u00a0 nycha Hell&#8217;s Kitchen complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/11\/02\/woman-shot-to-death-inside-hells-kitchen-nycha-complex\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">woman shot in the head<\/a> inside a NYCHA complex in Hell\u2019s Kitchen died from a self-inflicted wound \u2014 and investigators are now trying to determine if she committed suicide or accidentally shot herself, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was shot inside a stairwell at NYCHA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nycha\/downloads\/pdf\/harborview-factsheet-en.pdf\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nycha\/downloads\/pdf\/harborview-factsheet-en.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harborview Terrace<\/a> complex on W. 56th St. near Tenth Ave. about 12:45 a.m. Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were initially unsure of her identity but have now identified her as an 18 year old whose name they have not yet released.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the victim to Mount Sinai West but she could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Cops later determined the woman\u2019s gunshot wound was self inflicted \u2014 but it is still not clear if the woman committed suicide or accidentally shot herself, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The city Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine her cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"An 18-year-old female was found fatally shot in the head at NYCHA's Harborview Terrace complex on W. 56th St. near Tenth Ave. in Manhattan early Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" height=\"373\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TNY-P17-20251102-095844.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8580643\" \/>A young woman was fatally shot in the head at NYCHA\u2019s Harborview Terrace complex on W. 56th St. near Tenth Ave. in Manhattan early Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Tenants said the victim was heading down the stairs in the NYCHA building when she was shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt started from the second floor coming down, so like three of the steps are littered with blood,\u201d said a man cleaning up the crime scene Sunday. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty bloody in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night, the building stairwell was still splattered with blood, including a large pool on the second floor landing where the woman was shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young woman shot in the head inside a NYCHA complex in Hell\u2019s Kitchen died from a self-inflicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-28950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950","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=28950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}