Stephanie Quiñones went out to celebrate her 35th birthday, but ended up dying after collapsing in an unlicensed nightclub in Queens (NYC), leaving a 12-year-old girl orphaned.
The incident occurred at an unnamed nightclub located at 24-64 49th Street in Astoria on July 31. In the midst of the celebration, Quiñones suddenly fainted. According to his family, Instead of calling 911, the local workers were afraid of the police and dragged her into a back room.where they left her for hours until she died, recounted New York Post.
The club does not have a license to sell liquor, according to the State Alcoholic Beverage Authority (SLA).
Come find your drunk sister.”
The medical examiner is still investigating to determine the cause of death. According to the report, several of those present slapped Quiñones across the face, apparently to revive her, before get her off the charged dance floor.
A bartender then sent a photo of an unconscious Quiñones to his mother in Florida and began sending text messages to her sister, Jasmín González, who lives in the bronx.
“Come find your drunk sister”, González assures that they told her and she still did not know the seriousness of the situation. When she arrived at the club two hours later and finally called 911, the employees fled her and locked her in the club, where she discovered her sister was dead.
“I was doing compressions on a dead person,” González said. “Everyone left me alone. No one had the decency to stay.” She says she went outside to call the approaching ambulance, then went back inside with her sister, but by the time lifeguards reached the block the workers had locked the club door. “Everyone left because they didn’t want to be there when the police were called,” he claimed. Finally Quiñones was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital.
The New York police (NYPD) said they were investigating a person pronounced dead upon arrival at the club that night, although they did not identify Quiñones by name.
“What hurts me the most is that not only did they not call 911, but it was cruel for me to go there, giving me hope that she was alive,” González insisted.
The owner of a nearby business who spoke anonymously for fear of retaliation said the location was initially an insurance company, but later began hosting late-night parties.
The Quiñones family began a GoFundMe campaign which has so far raised over $24,000. No one has been arrested in the case.
In a similar case last month, three roommates were accused of throwing their friend’s body into a plastic bin near an MTA yard in the bronx (NYC).
Frank Vallelonga Jr., the actor whose body was thrown from a car onto a street in The Bronx (NYC) in November, died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl and cocaine, determined the autopsy announced in April this year.
At least 43 cases of fentanyl overdose, seven of them fatal, are linked to two separate patterns of robberies at nightclubs in and around Manhattan dating back to September 2021.
