{"id":460767,"date":"2025-12-20T20:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460767\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:49:12","slug":"senior-citizen-beaten-to-death-in-nyc-housing-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460767\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior citizen beaten to death in NYC housing complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman was found bludgeoned to death inside her\u00a0Chinatown\u00a0apartment with \u201ca bloodied skateboard\u201d near her body \u2013 and police believe\u00a0her\u00a0son\u00a0may have killed her, police sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zhu Hou, who also had injuries to her body, was pronounced dead on the scene Friday night inside an apartment in the Lower East Side\u2019s Knickerbocker Village complex on Monroe Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old was found on the floor by her son, who called 911, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old was found bludgeoned to death in an apartment in NYC\u2019s Knickerbocker Village, cops said. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>A family member is suspected in the killing, police sources said. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-admin\/edit.php?post_type=article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There were no immediate arrests but police are looking at her son, who has\u00a0a history of mental illness, as a possible suspect, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday afternoon, nobody was in custody in association with the death, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not scared,\u201d said\u00a0a\u00a0neighbor, who declined to identify himself. \u201cThey\u2019ll catch them. There are cameras all over the buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A second family member found the woman dead on the floor of her apartment, the sources said. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the City\u2019s Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD requests that anyone with information about the case contact the 5th Precinct in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Knickerbocker Village is a sprawling, federally subsidized middle-income housing complex that borders Chinatown and the Lower East Side and was built in the 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly woman was found bludgeoned to death inside her\u00a0Chinatown\u00a0apartment with \u201ca bloodied skateboard\u201d near her body \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10762,5249,5248,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-460767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-murders","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115753868571896306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}