{"id":387316,"date":"2026-10-30T02:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/387316\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:48:09","slug":"woman-81-found-dead-in-her-nyc-home-person-of-interest-taken-into-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/387316\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 81, found dead in her NYC home, person of interest taken into custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman was found dead in her Queens home on Thursday \u2014 and cops took a person of interest into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Lillie Hill, 81, was found unconscious by police responding to a 911 call inside her home on 146th Street between Sutter Avenue and Rockaway Boulevard in South Jamaica around 3:30 p.m., according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41588443\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/30-pm-police-responded-found-146905314.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD officer stands guard outside a residence in Queens where an 81-year-old woman was found unresponsive.\" class=\"wp-image-41588443\"\/>NYPD officers work a scene where 81-year-old Lillie Hill was found unresponsive in Queens, New York, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. Kyle Mazza\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Hill was rushed to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Cops then took an unidentified person of interest into custody in connection with the case, authorities added. <\/p>\n<p>No charges were filed by late Thursday. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41588461\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/30-pm-police-responded-found-146905265.jpg\" alt=\"A green street sign reading &quot;146 St&quot; mounted on a pole in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-41588461\"\/>Cops took an unidentified person of interest into custody in connection with the case. Kyle Mazza\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances surrounding Hill\u2019s death are not immediately known. <\/p>\n<p>Photos captured cops stationed outside her fenced home, just blocks away from John F. Kennedy Airport. <\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine Hill\u2019s cause of death, and an investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly woman was found dead in her Queens home on Thursday \u2014 and cops took a person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1015,19085,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,122,58],"class_list":["post-387316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-deaths","tag-investigations","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387316","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=387316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}