{"id":315206,"date":"2026-08-06T14:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315206\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:18:41","slug":"queens-murder-suspect-arrested-for-stabbing-man-dead-in-posh-high-rise-after-rendezvous-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315206\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens murder: Suspect arrested for stabbing man dead in posh high-rise after rendezvous gone wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FILE \u2013 The city\u2019s Medical Examiner\u2019s office wheels out a body. <\/p>\n

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A Brooklyn man faces murder charges for allegedly stabbing a Queens man to death<\/a> during an apparent romantic rendezvous gone wrong, police sources said.<\/p>\n

According to police sources, 36-year-old Bretford Brewer of Brooklyn was charged on Wednesday with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the brutal slaying of 36-year-old Carlos Penzo on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n

Penzo was found covered in blood and covered in stab wounds across his body inside a bathtub at his ritzy Long Island City apartment complex, located at 43-25 Hunter St., the Hayden building.\n<\/p>\n

Sources familiar with the investigation report that the two men met on social media and intended to hook up for the night. However, something triggered a verbal dispute between the two men that ended with Brewer allegedly attacking Penzo with a knife, causing his death.<\/p>\n

According to a report from the New York Daily News<\/a>, the suspect was seen on the rooftop of the 51-story high-rise nude, attempting to destroy security cameras with a fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n

Brewer\u2019s arraignment at Queens Criminal Court is pending as of Thursday.\n<\/p>\n

The Hayden\u2019s website<\/a> notes that the complex features its own basketball court, gym, lawn with a movie screen, and a parking garage. Current price listings begin at over $6,600 a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 The city\u2019s Medical Examiner\u2019s office wheels out a body. Photo by Dean Moses A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[303,259,9,24,63,104,122,124,123,260],"class_list":["post-315206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-police","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315206","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=315206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}