{"id":71590,"date":"2025-12-15T22:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71590\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:20:20","slug":"mans-suspicious-death-in-his-apartment-ruled-a-homicide-amnewyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71590\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s suspicious death in his apartment ruled a homicide \u2013 amNewYork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765837220_134_8cbd3264-1d1f-4b3d-952b-b23bbfffc7c1.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"medical examiner wheels out body of murder victim\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn murder mystery: Man's suspicious death in his apartment ruled a homicide 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 Medical Examiner\u2019s office personnel wheels out body of a murder victim.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> detectives have opened a homicide investigation into the suspicious death of a man reported last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said Justin Tetro, 51, was found dead inside his apartment at 21 Pennsylvania Ave. in Cypress Hills during a wellness check just before 11:05 a.m. on Dec. 11.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd75pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">75th Precinct<\/a> were called to the location by family members to conduct a wellness check. When they gained access to Tetro\u2019s residence, they found him unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to his head and neck.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137818127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-15-at-5.03.18-PM.jpg\" alt=\"scene in Brooklyn where man was found dead\" width=\"1200\" height=\"688\" title=\"Brooklyn murder mystery: Man's suspicious death in his apartment ruled a homicide 2\"  \/>Police said Justin Tetro, 51, was found dead inside his apartment at 21 Pennsylvania Ave. in Cypress Hills during a wellness check just before 11:05 a.m. on Dec. 11.Photo via Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Responding EMS units pronounced Tetro dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy that ultimately determined Tetro\u2019s death was a homicide, police announced Monday.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in the active and ongoing investigation, police reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>Through Dec. 14, the 75th Precinct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-075pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported 13 homicides year-to-date<\/a>, one more than the total at the same point in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 Medical Examiner\u2019s office personnel wheels out body of a murder victim. 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