An 85-year-old woman known to be Su J. Yang was found with bruises on her neck, lying face-down next to her bed in her Country Pointe Circle basement apartment in Bellerose.
According to police, officers responded around 10:20 a.m. to a 911 call of an unconscious woman in a home located on Country Pointe Circle, in the Queens Village neighborhood.
Upon arrival, officers discovered the victim lying face down inside a basement apartment at the address, with apparent trauma to her neck, officials said.
Her neck was bruised when it was discovered. EMS responded and declared Yang dead on the spot.
The circumstances that led to the death of the elder were not immediately clear. The city’s medical examiner’s office will officially determine how she died.
There is also an investigation set to look into the killing and get the culprits to face the law. As it stands now no arrest has been made with the killers still on the run.