{"id":373422,"date":"2026-10-15T00:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373422\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:14:11","slug":"autistic-man-found-dead-in-nyc-nypd-investigating-mom-after-she-jumped-from-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373422\/","title":{"rendered":"Autistic man found dead in NYC, NYPD investigating mom after she jumped from highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

An adult man with autism<\/a> was found dead inside his Queens home Wednesday\u2014and cops are investigating if his mother was involved after she jumped from the Van Wyck Expressway, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n

Bryan Wong, 25, was found unconscious \u2013 with multiple slash wounds to each wrist and the left side of his neck \u2013 around 8 a.m. inside the three-story walk-up apartment building on 59th Street near Laurel Hill Boulevard in Woodside, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n

\"AnA general view shows an NYPD van in the Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n

The grim discovery came about four hours after Wong\u2019s mother was found wounded under the major expressway \u2013 the result of a possible suicide attempt, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe son doesn\u2019t speak, I think he doesn\u2019t talk,\u201d concerned neighbor Patricia Guevara told The Post. \u201cHe makes noises like [grunting]. He only screams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I see [the mother], she always says, \u2018Hi, hi,\u201d she added. \u201cBut she looks tired. She was tired and stressed out. They barely took him out. It\u2019s your son, how [are] you going to kill him?\u201d<\/p>\n

But the home health aide for Wong\u2019s grandmother \u2013 who lived on the bottom floor \u2013 told The Post in Mandarin that his mother is \u201creally nice\u201d and \u201calways takes him to the park.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe really loved him,\u201d the aide added. \u201cHe came every morning, knock, say \u2018Good morning.\u2019 They came from Hong Kong. They\u2019ve lived here a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wong\u2019s father called 911 upon finding him mortally wounded on a pull-out couch, the sources said.<\/p>\n

The man \u2013 who sources said may be nonverbal \u2013 was pronounced dead on scene by EMS workers, cops said.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorBryan Wong, 25, was found unconscious with multiple slash wounds to each wrist and the left side of his neck at 48-36 59th Street. Google Maps<\/p>\n

At least three knives were found at the scene \u2013 one in the living room, and two in the bathroom, sources said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Wong\u2019s mother was found lying in the street under the Van Wyck Expressway on Harper Street in Corona around 4 a.m., cops and sources said.<\/p>\n

She had suffered a fractured pelvis and femur, and was hospitalized in stable condition, according to police and sources.<\/p>\n

A nearby driver found her disabled gray Hyundai on the north side of the expressway, sources said.<\/p>\n

Investigators also discovered that the mother had left behind a note about her son and his financial information, sources said.<\/p>\n

His official cause of death remains under investigation \u2014 but sources say investigators are eyeing the case as a possible murder and attempted suicide.<\/p>\n

A 21-year-old man who grew up on the block said that all the neighbors knew about Wong\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bus used to drop him off,\u201d said the neighbor, who declined to give his name. \u201cWe used to see him all the time. He was sick. He had autism. I see the dad a lot, maybe two or three times a week. I\u2019d see the son mostly with the dad. They looked like a perfectly fine family. There were like 10 cop cars this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An adult man with autism was found dead inside his Queens home Wednesday\u2014and cops are investigating if his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[14836,303,1027,57,238,9,24,63,103,122,124,123,58],"class_list":["post-373422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-autism","tag-crime","tag-homicide","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373422","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=373422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}