{"id":373650,"date":"2026-10-15T06:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373650\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T06:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:19:47","slug":"cause-of-death-for-woman-found-in-sheepshead-bay-garbage-can-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373650\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of death for woman found in Sheepshead Bay garbage can \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cause of death has been released for a woman whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/video\/news\/womans-body-found-inside-trash-can-near-brooklyn-parking-lot\/6548768\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">body was found wrapped in blankets inside a trash can<\/a> at a parking lot for a Brooklyn beach.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City Medical Examiner&#8217;s office said on Wednesday the woman, Tanaya Campbell Ortiz, was strangled to death. The 38-year-old&#8217;s body was found on Sept. 16 in a garbage bin in the parking lot for Plumb Beach, near Belt Parkway and Knapp Street in Sheepshead Bay, according to police sources.<\/p>\n<p>Her death is being investigated as a homicide. <\/p>\n<p>No arrests have yet been made. Police have not yet released a description of a potential suspect.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cause of death has been released for a woman whose body was found wrapped in blankets inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,3294,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-373650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373650","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=373650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}