{"id":324610,"date":"2026-08-19T02:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324610\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:46:14","slug":"staten-island-teen-found-dead-with-suspicious-injuries-police-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324610\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island teen found dead with suspicious injuries: police sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD detectives are investigating the mysterious death of a 19-year-old Staten Island man found in his family\u2019s home with suspicious injuries Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/04\/nypd-record-low-shootings-murders-first-seven-months-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>When EMS arrived at the home on Elmwood Park Drive near Devon Loop in New Springville shortly after 11 a.m., they found the teen victim dead in the living room.<\/p>\n<p>He had bruising on his wrists, swollen ankles, and his ribs were protruding from his skin, as if he was malnourished, a police source with knowledge of the case said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s mother said she heard a loud thud before finding her son dead on the floor, but the teen\u2019s injuries weren\u2019t consistent with a fall, a second police source said.<\/p>\n<p>As police continue to investigate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/12\/15\/nyc-medical-examiners-office-reviewing-hundreds-of-cases-in-budding-lab-scandal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an autopsy has been slated to determine how the teen died<\/a>, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A man at the home who introduced himself as the dead teen\u2019s stepfather told a Daily News reporter that there was \u201cnothing to be concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The police) are here as a precaution,\u201d the stepfather said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD detectives are investigating the mysterious death of a 19-year-old Staten Island man found in his family\u2019s home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[27758,9,24,63,103,134,136,135,122262],"class_list":["post-324610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-detectives","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-suspicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324610","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=324610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}