{"id":338317,"date":"2026-09-04T19:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338317\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:36:48","slug":"brooklyn-man-beaten-to-death-steps-away-from-his-home-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338317\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man beaten to death steps away from his home: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/brooklyn-shooting-lloyd-mitchell-08222026-3.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"crime scene in Brooklyn\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn man beaten to death steps away from his home: cops 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 Police respond to a reported homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p>Detectives in <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> are searching for the suspect who fatally beat a man outside his home early on Friday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the deadly attack occurred at about 3:45 a.m. on Sept. 4 near an apartment building at 152 Grattan St., off Varick Avenue, in East Williamsburg\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd90pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">90th Precinct<\/a> rushed to the scene after receiving a call regarding an assault in progress. When they arrived, they found 42-year-old Florencio Ramos Martinez, who lived at the Grattan Street address, unconscious and unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a preliminary investigation, police sources said, it\u2019s believed Martinez had become embroiled in a physical dispute with an unidentified suspect following an argument. During the altercation, it appears he took a punch and fell to the sidewalk, striking his head on the concrete and becoming unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances leading up to the argument are unknown, police sources said.\n<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed Martinez to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation, police said. No suspect description was available as of publication time.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the homicide can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Through Aug. 30, the 90th Precinct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-090pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">had one reported homicide all year<\/a>, down from three at the same point in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 Police respond to a reported homicide. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Detectives in Brooklyn are searching for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10568,98,19820,100,99,784,2537,79121,127061,127062,1027,788,44647,9,24,63,103,6399,39068,127063],"class_list":["post-338317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-90th-precinct","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-crime","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-east-williamsburg","tag-fatal-beating","tag-florencio-ramos-martinez","tag-grattan-street","tag-homicide","tag-homicide-investigation","tag-murder-investigation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-investigation","tag-unsolved-murder","tag-varick-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338317","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=338317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}