{"id":337817,"date":"2026-09-04T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337817\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:10:09","slug":"state-police-looking-for-public-assistance-in-solving-2019-tompkins-county-cold-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337817\/","title":{"rendered":"State Police looking for public assistance in solving 2019 Tompkins County Cold Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWFIELD N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police are asking for assistance from the public with a Tompkins County murder case which has gone cold. <\/p>\n<p>The case is a home invasion homicide which occured on December 7, 2019 at 22 Shaffer Road in Newfield. <\/p>\n<p>Three masked men, carrying guns, entered the home around 1:15 a.m. intending to rob the residents, according to investigators. <\/p>\n<p>The suspects subsequently shot and killed Dejour X. Gandy.<\/p>\n<p>Gandy was 29-years-old and had confronted the attackers inside the home before being killed. <\/p>\n<p>NYSP is urging anyone who may have witnessed or who may have information regarding the death of Gandy to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the New York State Police at (607) 561-7400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWFIELD N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police are asking for assistance from the public with a Tompkins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-337817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337817","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=337817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}