Homicide detectives from the 109th Precinct in Flushing are now investigating the mysterious death of a College Point man nearly three months after he was found dead inside his waterfront condominium on Flushing Bay at the confluence with the East River across from LaGuardia Airport.
On the night of Sunday, Oct. 20, police responded to a 911 call of a man in need of medical attention inside the Allura at 14-50 110th St. and found a 45-year-old victim unconscious and unresponsive on the bedroom floor with head trauma. EMS responded to the location and pronounced the man deceased at the scene.
He was later identified as 45-year-old Carlos Buritica. Crimes scene investigators initially believed his death to be a suicide because narcotics were found around his body, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.
On Tuesday, Jan. 14, the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner deemed his death a homicide after it was determined the head trauma was the result of a gunshot wound, police said Wednesday.
There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.
Anyone with information regarding this homicide investigation 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 crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are confidential.
