{"id":320669,"date":"2026-08-13T20:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320669\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:28:09","slug":"40-year-old-brooklyn-woman-found-dead-in-apartment-ruled-homicide-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320669\/","title":{"rendered":"40-year-old Brooklyn woman found dead in apartment ruled homicide: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/94697dcb-police-tape-police-lights.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Three teens have been arrested for what police believe to be a weekend robbery spree. <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; The death of a 40-year-old woman found unresponsive inside a Brooklyn apartment earlier this month has been ruled a homicide, police said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police identified the victim as Erika Miranda Tlacuatl, 40, of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers responded around 3:42 a.m. Aug. 1 to a 911 call for help at an apartment on 64th Street in the Borough Park area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">They found Tlacuatl unconscious and unresponsive inside the apartment, police said. EMS pronounced her dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled Tlacuatl\u2019s death a homicide, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from the New York Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Three teens have been arrested for what police believe to be a weekend robbery spree. NEW YORK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[850,9,11,10,12,56,63,618],"class_list":["post-320669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320669","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=320669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}