A woman was found stabbed to death inside a spa in the Murray Hill section of Flushing, Queens, on Friday afternoon, November 6, and New York City police are searching for a man seen fleeing the business, according to police and sources cited in New York reporting. Officers who went to the business, on 164th Street near Crocheron Avenue, at about 4:30 p.m. found the woman with multiple stab wounds to her head and body, and she was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Source: NYPD via New York Post reporting, Nov. 6, 2026
Police had not released the woman's name in the published reports through Friday night, and no arrest had been announced. CBS News New York reported that the NYPD is investigating the stabbing death of the woman at the Queens spa, and detectives are working to establish who she was, who was in the business that afternoon and what led to the attack.
Source: CBS News New York, Nov. 6, 2026
What police and sources say happened
The discovery was made in the late afternoon at the business on 164th Street, in a part of Flushing's Koreatown near the Broadway station of the Long Island Rail Road. Police said the woman had suffered multiple stab wounds to her head and body and could not be saved; she was pronounced dead where she was found. The motive for the attack remains under investigation, according to the reporting.
Source: NYPD via New York Post reporting, Nov. 6, 2026
Investigators are searching for a heavyset man, about 6 feet 2 inches tall, who was seen fleeing the establishment carrying a garbage bag, sources told the New York Post. Police have not publicly confirmed a name for the man, said whether he was known to the woman, or announced any arrest. The description comes from sources cited in reporting, not from a named police suspect, and no one has been charged in connection with the death.
A quiet street in Murray Hill
The business sits near the Broadway Long Island Rail Road stop in Murray Hill, an area residents describe as particularly quiet - a residential corner of Flushing of houses and small storefronts rather than the borough's busy downtown core a short distance west. A fatal stabbing inside a small neighbourhood business, in daylight hours on a Friday afternoon, is the kind of crime that lands heavily on such a street: workers in nearby shops and residents on the block learned of a death investigation at a business many of them pass every day.
Source: New York Post reporting via InterNewsCast, Nov. 6, 2026
Flushing is one of New York's great immigrant neighbourhoods, and its small service businesses - spas, salons, restaurants and shops along streets like 164th - are staffed heavily by immigrant workers, many of them women working shifts that end after dark. Police have released nothing suggesting a motive in this case, and it would be wrong to guess at one; what is known is only that a woman died at her workplace, or inside a business she was in, and that the person seen leaving has not been found.
Confirmed by police in published reporting: a woman was found with multiple stab wounds at a business on 164th Street near Crocheron Avenue at about 4:30 p.m. on Friday and was pronounced dead at the scene. Not yet established: her name and age, any relationship to the man seen fleeing, and the motive. The fleeing man's description comes from unnamed sources cited by the New York Post, not from a police suspect announcement.
What happens next
The NYPD investigation is continuing in Murray Hill. The woman's name will be released only after officials identify her and notify her family, and detectives will be working the ordinary but decisive ground of a case like this: the business's records and cameras, video from the street and the nearby rail station, and interviews with workers and residents who were on 164th Street on Friday afternoon. Until police name a suspect or make an arrest, the official position is the narrow one the first reports carried - a woman is dead, a man was seen leaving, and the motive is unknown.