{"id":6954,"date":"2025-10-17T21:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6954\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:30:25","slug":"mans-head-and-torso-found-in-garbage-bag-at-brooklyn-building-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6954\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s head and torso found in garbage bag at Brooklyn building: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head and torso of a man were found in a garbage bag outside a building in Brooklyn on Friday morning, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cunconscious, unresponsive\u201d man \u201cwith trauma to the body\u201d was found shortly after 9 a.m. near E. 21st St. and Ditmas Ave. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityneighborhoods.nyc\/flatbush#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flatbush<\/a>\u00a0and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. According to sources, the man\u2019s head and torso were found in a bag near the garbage area of a building.<\/p>\n<p>Police are currently investigating. The city\u2019s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said a person of interest was in custody.<\/p>\n<p>So far no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head and torso of a man were found in a garbage bag outside a building in Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","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=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}