{"id":345645,"date":"2026-09-13T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345645\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:02:34","slug":"man-charged-with-killing-nyc-mom-in-washington-heights-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345645\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with killing NYC mom in Washington Heights: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tZhan\u00e9 Caldwell and Nicole Alarcon<\/p>\n<p>\t\t5 hours ago\n<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX 11) \u2014 A man is facing charges in connection with the death of a woman who police say was killed inside her Washington Heights home.<\/p>\n<p>Family members watched as 41-year-old Tiliek Thompson was walked out of the 33rd precinct in handcuffs Saturday night in connection to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/neighbors-react-to-mother-found-dead-in-nyc-apartment\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/neighbors-react-to-mother-found-dead-in-nyc-apartment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">killing of 27-year-old Lovay Williams.<\/a> Police said Thompson turned himself in for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was found dead inside her home after officers conducted a wellness check last week, police told PIX11 News. According to family members, it happened in front of her 7-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Williams suffered trauma to her face and neck in a domestic violence incident. <\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s family told PIX11 News that Thompson and Williams were dating.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is now facing several charges including murder, strangulation and criminal obstruction of breathing.<\/p>\n<p>A vigil will be held Monday for Williams as friends, family and the community continue to mourn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhan\u00e9 Caldwell and Nicole Alarcon 5 hours ago WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX 11) \u2014 A man is facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-345645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345645","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=345645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}