{"id":313642,"date":"2026-08-04T18:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313642\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:44:46","slug":"family-mystified-after-queens-man-stabbed-to-death-in-bathtub-of-his-luxury-high-rise-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313642\/","title":{"rendered":"Family mystified after Queens man stabbed to death in bathtub of his luxury high-rise apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of a man found stabbed to death in the bathtub of his luxury Queens high-rise apartment<\/a> after being visited by several men \u2014 including one discovered naked trying to destroy the building\u2019s security cameras \u2014 are mystified by the circumstances of his slaying.<\/p>\n

Carlos Penzo, 36, was found dead in his bathroom at the Hayden<\/a>, a high-end apartment building in Long Island City<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this to happen to him in the comfort of his own home is unbelievable,\u201d Christine Piantini, the victim\u2019s sister, told the Daily News as she fought back tears. \u201cMy brother was not an aggressive person. He was a sweetheart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piantini said her family is still grappling with the bizarre details surrounding his murder. Cops were first summoned to the building after receiving a 911 call from the victim\u2019s cell phone about 9:59 a.m. Saturday \u2014 but could not gain access to his unit.<\/p>\n

Then at 12:35 p.m., an alarm went off and building security discovered a naked man on the roof of Penzo\u2019s 51-story high-rise spraying a fire extinguisher at security cameras in an apparent attempt to destroy them, the sources said.<\/p>\n

Building security workers alerted the NYPD and the naked man was taken into custody by cops in a fourth-floor hallway, where he was trying to break into the victim\u2019s apartment, according to sources. No charges against him were immediately filed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re appalled by the nature of the crime,\u201c said Piantini, who spoke to The News at her home in the Norwood section of the Bronx, where family gathered to grieve. \u201cObviously there was a struggle.\u201c<\/p>\n

After taking the naked man into custody, cops gained access to Penzo\u2019s unit and found him dead<\/p>\n

The naked man was one of up to four men cops believe to have been inside the apartment with Penzo in the hours before his body was found, cops said.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s sister has no idea who those men are.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know so little,\u201d Piantini said. \u201cWe have so many questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CarlosCarlos Penzo, pictured, was found dead in his apartment bathroom at the Hayden, a high-end apartment building in Long Island City, Queens, on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

Piantini declined to say what her brother did for work.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe comes from a very good family\u201d and \u201cwas loved by everybody,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe brought light,\u201d she added. \u201cHe didn\u2019t deserve to suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penzo\u2019s was found dead sitting upright in a bathtub with a knife and a Taser in his lap. He had suffered deep stab wounds and slashes to his face and head and had also been stabbed in the chest, police sources said.<\/p>\n

There was blood in his bedroom and on his kitchen floor and a broken knife was found in\u00a0 the sink, the sources said.<\/p>\n

Nobody has been charged with his slaying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a man found stabbed to death in the bathtub of his luxury Queens high-rise apartment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-313642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313642","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=313642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}