UPDATE Wakefield: Mother and 8-Year-Old Son Found Deceased inside Home & Daughter, 4, Found Alive

By SÍLE MOLONEY

A 38-YEAR-OLD WOMAN and her 8-year-old son were found deceased on Friday night, April 18, 2025, inside this apartment building at 683 East 231st Street between Carpenter Avenue and White Plains Road in Wakefield, The Bronx on Friday, April 19, 2025.
Photo by Síle Moloney

A community has been left reeling in shock upon hearing that a 38-year-old mother and her 8-year-old son were found deceased inside their home in the Wakefield section of The Bronx. Police confirmed discovering the bodies inside the location, along with a 4-year-old girl who is alive. Neighbors said the little girl was the woman’s younger daughter and that she has a teenage sister.

A police spokesperson said that on Friday, April 18, at around 8.26 p.m., officers from the 47th Precinct responded to a 911 call regarding an aided person at 683 East 231st street, located between White Plains Road and Carpenter Avenue.

A NOTICE FROM the NYPD seals the door of an apartment seen on Saturday, April 19, 2025, located at 683 East 231st Street between Carpenter Avenue and White Plains Road in Wakefield, where a 38-year-old mother and her 8-year-old son were found deceased on Friday, April 18, 2025. A 4-year-old girl, who neighbors say was the woman’s younger daughter, was also found alive inside the location, according to police.
Photo by Síle Moloney

“Upon arrival, officers found a 38-year-old female and an 8-year-old male unconscious and unresponsive inside that location,” a police spokesperson said. “EMS responded and transported the two individuals. They pronounced them deceased on scene. Upon further investigation, a four-year-old female was also present at the location.”

The spokesperson continued, “She was transported by EMS to Montefiore Medical Center Wakefield campus for further medical examination. She is stable at the location. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death for those individuals. There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.” More to follow.

POLICE ARE SEEN on the corner of White Plains Road and East 231st Street in Wakefield on Saturday afternoon, April 19, 2025, close to the location where a 38-year-old woman and her 8-year-old son were found deceased at 683 East 231st Street between White Plains Road and Carpenter Avenue on Friday, April 18, 2025.
Photo by Síle Moloney

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.

All calls are strictly confidential.

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