{"id":316869,"date":"2026-08-08T20:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316869\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:16:46","slug":"brooklyn-woman-found-dead-after-neighbor-hears-30-minutes-of-hammering-and-a-final-f-k-you-coming-from-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316869\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn woman found dead after neighbor hears &#8217;30 minutes of hammering&#8217; and a final &#8216;F&#8211;k You&#8217; coming from apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was discovered after what a neighbor described to The Post as hammering and cursing coming from her Brooklyn apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Bensonhurst neighbors heard 30 minutes of mysterious and constant hammering in the early morning hours \u2013 before the 40-year-old woman was found dead of blunt force trauma in their building on 64th Street near 16th Avenue. on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was music and people singing around 12:15 a.m. and it stops around 2 a.m.,\u201d said a man who identified himself as A.L.<\/p>\n<p>Erika Miranda-Tlacua was found dead in a Bensonhurst home on Aug. 1 after neighbors heard loud hammering and cursing. GoFundMe<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then the hammer starts,\u201d he said. \u201cI recorded it. It was 30 minutes of hammering and it started with a strong one. When the hammer finish, I heard \u2018F\u2013k you!\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After that, there was eerie silence, the neighbor said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/06\/us-news\/nude-wacko-charged-in-bathtub-stabbing-of-man-in-luxury-nyc-high-rise-may-have-been-social-media-hookup-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The woman<\/a>, identified by family as Erika Miranda-Tlacua, was found shortly before 4 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>EMS pronounced her dead on the scene, and NYPD detectives were seen going in and out of the house carrying evidence bags in the hours that followed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NYPD investigators work the scene where a 40-year-old woman was found dead inside of 1644 64th Street in Brooklyn on Aug. 1.  Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>There have been no arrests in the 40-year-old\u2019s mysterious death. GoFundMe<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/01\/us-news\/cops-on-the-hunt-in-mexico-for-nyc-slasher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There were no arrests <\/a>as of Thursday and no suspect description, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her cousin Gris Aguirre started a GoFundMe account for Miranda-Tlacua, she told The Post in a text.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith broken hearts, we ask for your support today during one of the most difficult times of our lives,\u201d the Spanish-language post said.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD investigators carry evidence bags outside the home where the woman\u2019s body was found. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur beloved cousin was the victim of an act of violence that has left us devastated. Her passing was sudden and painful, and now we face the daunting task of raising the necessary funds to cover the expenses and bring her body home so we can give her the dignified farewell she deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The effort has raised $305 so far, and the money will be used fly her body back to her native San Juan Tejaluca, a small village in the central Mexican state of Puebla.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Aguirre, who lives in Red Bank, N.J., was planning to go to Brooklyn Monday because there hadn\u2019t been an arrest in the case.  She didn\u2019t comment any further.<\/p>\n<p>A woman who lives next door, who also asked to remain anonymous, said the news was disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors said they heard hammering in the early morning hours before the grisly discovery was made. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The city medical examiner determined that the woman died from blunt force trauma to her head and body. Leonardo Munoz for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis news has left me a bit shaken \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/21\/us-news\/nyc-mom-stabbed-to-death-hours-before-hubbys-body-discovered-hanging-in-nearby-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">just imagine, a dead person<\/a>,\u201d she said. \u201cI think they said they found the apartment empty, with only the deceased woman there. Just imagine \u2014 leaving someone like that all alone in the apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A UPS driver who identified himself as Ronald said he was \u201cshocked\u201d when he learned what happened at the two-story building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was driving and saw the police car,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what exactly was going on, but when I went to my IG that\u2019s when I found the post and I was like, \u2018What! I was there earlier. What\u2019s going on?\u2019 Then I saw that there was a woman found dead in her apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A man who lives nearby and asked to remain anonymous said the neighborhood had become more transient in recent years: \u201cIt used to be that you knew your neighbors back in the day but now it\u2019s a lot of turnover.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was discovered after what a neighbor described to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1363,98,100,99,1015,57,238,9,24,63,103,58],"class_list":["post-316869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bensonhurst","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316869","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=316869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}