{"id":324539,"date":"2026-08-19T01:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324539\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:04:11","slug":"teen-found-dead-with-suspicious-injuries-signs-of-possible-malnourishment-in-nyc-home-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324539\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen found dead with suspicious injuries, signs of possible malnourishment in NYC home: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old man was found dead with suspicious injuries to his body inside his Staten Island home Tuesday morning \u2014 in a disturbing case investigators are treating as a suspected homicide, sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a New Springville residence on Elmwood Park Drive at 11:10 a.m. for reports of an unconscious person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50367107;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40400854\" width=\"887\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0bed2b6a23cb1102f8872e72be8b58a5-se_extra_large_15.jpg\" alt=\"Building entrance with brick stairs and Halloween decorations on the balconies.\" class=\"wp-image-40400854\"\/>The teen was found dead inside his Elmwood Park Drive home in New Springville,  Streeteasy<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived to find the teen unresponsive in the home\u2019s living room, cops and sources said. He was declared dead at the scene, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s body was cold and had protruding ribs. He also had swelling and bruising around his wrists and ankles \u2014 as well as signs consistent with malnourishment, sources familiar with the investigation said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40400866\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/051526nypdsuv7CS.jpg\" alt=\"An NYPD Highway Patrol vehicle with flashing lights parked on a street at night.\" class=\"wp-image-40400866\"\/>Officers arrived to find the teen unresponsive in the living room, according to sources. He was declared dead in the home.\u00a0 Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The teen\u2019s mother, who placed the 911 call, provided first responders with a narrative that sources said was inconsistent with the physical findings at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into his death remains ongoing. There have been no arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old man was found dead with suspicious injuries to his body inside his Staten Island home Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9096,8301,1027,57,9,24,63,134,136,135,58],"class_list":["post-324539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-abuse","tag-child-abuse","tag-homicide","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324539","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=324539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}