{"id":367617,"date":"2026-10-08T05:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367617\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:56:20","slug":"man-found-dead-in-queens-park-with-stab-wounds-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367617\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in Queens park with stab wounds, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"1pc2i\">Police are investigating the stabbing and death of a man found in a Queens public park early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"b69th\">NYPD officials said officers responded to a 911 call about an assault at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/major-mark-park\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Major Mark Park<\/a> near Hillside Avenue and 175th Street in Jamaica around 4:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d4pp3\">Once there, police found a man with two stab wounds in his chest, officials said. They estimate the man was in his 30s.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e6gkv\">EMS workers also responded and pronounced the man dead at the scene, officials said. They did not immediately have a description of a suspect or any information about what sparked the violence.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"l8fp\">Officials said the man may have been homeless.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cuirc\">According to police data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-103pct.pdf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">three murders<\/a> have been recorded so far this year in the 103rd Precinct, which serves neighborhoods in Eastern Queens including Jamaica, Hollis and Lakewood. Wednesday\u2019s homicide brings the total to four, which is equal to the murders reported in the precinct in the same time period last year.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dpnmv\">Murders are trending down by 20% citywide so far in 2026, compared to the same time last year, NYPD data shows.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"54eqo\">This is a developing story and was updated with new information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the stabbing and death of a man found in a Queens public park early Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-367617","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\/367617","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=367617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}