{"id":362782,"date":"2026-10-02T12:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362782\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:10:45","slug":"badly-burned-body-found-in-a-trashed-and-abandoned-jamaica-queens-lot-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362782\/","title":{"rendered":"Badly burned body found in a trashed and abandoned Jamaica Queens lot, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"5yts7\">Police are investigating after discovering a badly burned body in a vacant lot in Queens on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1faqu\">NYPD officials said someone called 911 to report an unconscious, unresponsive person at the property near 139th Street and Hillside Avenue in Briarwood, near Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3jim6\">When officers went to the scene around 4:20 p.m., they found the body of an adult male. EMS workers pronounced him dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7a4at\">Officials said the city medical examiner\u2019s office would determine when and how the man died.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6hs1f\">He was not immediately identified as police worked to notify his family.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dnsdf\">This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after discovering a badly burned body in a vacant lot in Queens on Thursday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-362782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362782","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=362782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}