{"id":339907,"date":"2026-09-07T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339907\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:36:41","slug":"woman-found-dead-at-nyc-apartment-in-safe-feeling-block-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339907\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead at NYC apartment in \u2018safe-feeling block\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2014 Police are searching for answers after a wellness check led to the discovery of a 27-year-old woman dead inside her home.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the victim was killed and had trauma to her face and neck.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tDiscover more local reporting on our homepage\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources say a 5-year-old child was home and answered the door when police showed up for the wellness check on West 156th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified the victim as Lovay Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The wellness check was conducted at around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. Officers found Williams unconscious and unresponsive, and she was declared dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The incident has left neighbors feeling unsettled. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely surprising,\u201d said one neighbor. \u201cThis is a lively, safe-feeling block.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s death is now under investigation by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2014 Police are searching for answers after a wellness check led to the discovery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-339907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339907","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=339907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}