Police are investigating the death of a 29-year-old Queens woman whose body was found behind a Bronx apartment building just days before Christmas.<\/p>\n
The victim was identified by family as Pamela Guerrero. Her mother, Paulina Pacheco, said she is still struggling to accept that her daughter is gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was born six months premature at Jacobi Hospital,\u201d Pacheco said. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t a malicious person. She was a good girl.\u201d<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
A 29-year-old Queens woman was found dead behind a Bronx apartment building just days before Christmas
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The victim\u2019s family says she was last seen hours earlier near the location
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The victim’s mother said she believed her daughter was heading back to her home in Queens when they parted ways
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The medical examiner will determine the cause of death as the investigation continues<\/p>\n
Pacheco said she spent time with her daughter just hours before Guerrero\u2019s body was discovered. The two were together at a nearby restaurant where one of Guerrero\u2019s sons works, only blocks from the Bronx building where police later found her.<\/p>\n
Pacheco said she believed her daughter was heading back to her home in Queens when they parted ways around 2 a.m. She now wants answers about what happened in the hours that followed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still can\u2019t believe it,\u201d Pacheco said. \u201cShe supported me too. She would tell me\u2026 I would say, \u2018Look, I want this,\u2019 and she would say, \u2018Okay, when I can, when I get out.\u2019 She worked. She used to tell me, \u2018You don\u2019t work, so I\u2019ll take care of it. I\u2019m retired. I\u2019m retired.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Guerrero\u2019s body was found shortly before 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, on the grounds behind an apartment building on Stratford Avenue between Westchester Avenue and East 172nd Street, according to police. Officers responded to a report of an unconscious woman and pronounced her dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police have not released details about how Guerrero died. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n
Family members, friends and community members gathered Friday night for a vigil, calling on police to provide answers.<\/p>\n
Sources and relatives said Guerrero worked as an elementary school teacher. Loved ones described her as hardworking and said she had a bright future ahead of her. Her family is now making funeral arrangements.<\/p>\n
Neighbors in the building complex said they were stunned by the discovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just sorry for her family and stuff like that,\u201d one neighbor told NY1. \u201cBut who did it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Another neighbor said they were surprised to learn the woman did not live in the building.<\/p>\n
Pacheco said she believes someone knows what happened to her daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to tell her, don\u2019t trust people so much,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Police said the investigation remains ongoing and have not announced any arrests or identified suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the death of a 29-year-old Queens woman whose body was found behind a Bronx apartment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[387,25,128,9,24,12,26,63,308,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-84474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nia-clark","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84474","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=84474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}