{"id":77686,"date":"2025-12-22T08:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77686\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:27:22","slug":"senior-woman-found-dead-with-body-trauma-inside-lower-east-side-apartment-cops-amnewyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77686\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior woman found dead with body trauma inside Lower East Side apartment: cops \u2013 amNewYork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/medical-examiner-2023-file-photo-lloyd-mitchell.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lower East Side medical examiners\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Senior woman found dead with body trauma inside Lower East Side apartment: cops 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 A Medical Examiner crew removes a dead body. <\/p>\n<p>File photo\/Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/manhattan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Manhattan<\/a> detectives have opened a homicide investigation into the death of a senior woman whose body was found with body trauma inside a Lower East Side apartment on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the grim discovery was made at about 7:55 p.m. on Dec. 19 inside 18 Monroe St.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd5pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">5th Precinct<\/a> found the body while responding to a 911 call at the location regarding an unconscious woman. Police said the woman \u2014 Zhu Hou, 76, who resided at the Monroe Street location \u2014 suffered trauma to her head and body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Responding EMS units pronounced Hou dead at the scene.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Her body was transferred to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which ruled her death a homicide.\n<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation, police said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Through Dec. 14, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-005pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">5th Precinct reported three homicides year-to-date<\/a>, equal to the total at the same point in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This story was updated on Dec. 21 at 11:45 a.m.<\/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 A Medical Examiner crew removes a dead body. File photo\/Lloyd Mitchell &#13; &#13; Manhattan detectives have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9389,38732,38733,358,75,6577,38734,9,24,790,55,54,56,791,22371,38735,38736],"class_list":["post-77686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-5th-precinct","tag-body-trauma","tag-ems-pronounced-dead","tag-lower-east-side","tag-manhattan","tag-medical-examiner-autopsy","tag-monroe-street","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-crime","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nypd-investigation","tag-police-response","tag-senior-woman","tag-unexplained-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77686","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=77686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}