{"id":34252,"date":"2025-11-09T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34252\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:24:10","slug":"nyc-man-has-head-fatally-bashed-in-with-metal-locker-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34252\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC man has head fatally bashed in with metal locker door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx man <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/08\/us-news\/teacher-of-the-year-placed-on-leave-after-allegedly-trying-to-mow-down-baby-daddy-in-walmart-parking-lot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had his head fatally bashed in<\/a> by a metal locker door over the weekend, according to law-enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, 48, was found unconscious in a Phelan Place apartment building just before 9 p.m. Saturday, where police said he\u2019d been beaten \u201cmultiple times in the head and body with a metal object.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Law-enforcement sources confirmed that metal object was a locker door.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37619685\" width=\"734\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/115120700.jpg\" alt=\"A tan brick building with several fire escapes on its front facade, two men stand outside the arched entryway.\" class=\"wp-image-37619685\" style=\"width:734px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\"  \/>The 48-year-old victim was found at a Bronx apartment building Saturday night and died later at the hospital.  Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The victim <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/06\/us-news\/teen-slashed-in-times-square-attack-by-stranger-who-asked-if-he-belonged-to-a-gang-cops-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was rushed to a hospital<\/a> but later died.<\/p>\n<p>A 37-year-old person of interest has been taken into custody, but no charges have been filed as of Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/06\/us-news\/bronx-burst-of-violence-sees-boy-14-stabbed-near-yankee-stadium-man-woman-shot-further-north-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What led to the deadly altercation<\/a> remains unclear, but the New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/11\/09\/man-48-bashed-to-death-with-metal-object-in-his-bronx-apartment-building\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News reported<\/a> both victims lived in the building.<\/p>\n<p>The person of interest was also hospitalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx man had his head fatally bashed in by a metal locker door over the weekend, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,57,238,9,56,63,65,64,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-34252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-assaults","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-murders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34252","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=34252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}