{"id":327879,"date":"2026-08-23T16:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327879\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:54:42","slug":"death-of-woman-found-in-bronx-apartment-with-head-and-body-trauma-deemed-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327879\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of woman found in Bronx apartment with head and body trauma deemed homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death of a woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/21\/woman-dead-head-torso-injuries-bronx-apartment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whose body was found<\/a> inside her Bronx apartment building with injuries to her head and torso has been deemed a homicide, police said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Josefa Soto De Carmen, 57, was discovered dead inside her home on Grand Concourse near E. 168th St.\u00a0about 3:25 p.m. Friday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors said the victim lived with family in the fifth-floor apartment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel very bad and sad because I won\u2019t see her again \u2014 saying \u2018What\u2019s up\u2019 to her, greeting each other how we always used to every time we just see each other,\u201d neighbor Santa Hernandez, 47, said in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>The victim \u2018s husband told Johandry News he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcWsWQtpmgW\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found his wife dead in the living room<\/a> when he took a break from work to look for a tool at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere I saw her lying on the couch, sitting up and covered in blood,\u201d he told the outlet in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of a woman whose body was found inside her Bronx apartment building with injuries to her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,2628,27300,79121,1027,9,24,63,103,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-327879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-concourse-village","tag-dead-woman","tag-fatal-beating","tag-homicide","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327879","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=327879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}