Brooklyn detectives have opened a homicide investigation into the suspicious death of a man reported last week. 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. Officers from the 75th Precinct were called to the location by family members to conduct a wellness check. When they gained access to Tetro's residence, they found him unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to his head and neck.
A double stabbing in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills neighborhood early Friday left a 30-year-old man dead and another man hospitalized, police said. Officers from the 102nd Precinct in Queens responded just before 1 a.m. to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center after two men arrived there by private transportation with stab wounds, according to the NYPD. A 30-year-old man who had been stabbed in the armpit was later pronounced dead, police said.