{"id":353132,"date":"2026-09-22T03:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353132\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T03:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:46:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-death-of-woman-who-became-unconscious-after-bronx-wellness-center-iv-treatment-ruled-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353132\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Death Of Woman Who Became Unconscious After Bronx Wellness Center Iv Treatment Ruled Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The death of a 27-year-old woman who became unconscious after receiving an IV treatment at a Bronx wellness center in July has now been ruled a homicide, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police confirmed on Monday that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined Elizabeth Baron\u2019s death was a homicide as part of the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Baron<a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/55-year-old-founder-of-bronx-holistic-medicine-center-arrested-after-woman-from-facility-dies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> died on July 19 after receiving treatment at Bereshit Lifestyle Center on Riverdale Avenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say Luis Rojas Cabrera, 55, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/prosecutors-unauthorized-nad-iv-infusion-led-to-womans-death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly administered an NAD+ IV infusion to Baron<\/a>, and that he was not legally authorized to administer the treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say Baron became unconscious during the treatment and was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rojas Cabrera was arrested following Baron\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Cabrera told investigators he was not licensed to practice medicine in New York but said he was a doctor in the Dominican Republic and held a physician assistant license in Puerto Rico. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He was initially charged with reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice of a profession.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors later charged him with second-degree manslaughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of a 27-year-old woman who became unconscious after receiving an IV treatment at a Bronx wellness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-353132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353132","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=353132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}