Family, protesters demand answers after Pamela Guerrero found dead in Stratford Avenue basement

Family members and protesters gathered on Stratford Avenue to demand answers after 29-year-old Pamela Guerrero was found dead in a basement on Dec. 21, 2025, organizers and a reporter on scene said.

Protesters began the demonstration with chants of 'Justice for Pamela,' and speakers urged investigators to provide information about Guerrero's death. 'What do we want?' one protester shouted. 'Justice.'

According to a reporter at the scene, Guerrero was found at 1235 Stratford Avenue with bruises on her back, neck, arms and multiple bruises on her face. The reporter said the medical examiner, two months after the discovery, had not yet ruled out the cause of death. 'Her family believes she was murdered, but they say they have not received much information about this case,' the reporter said.

An unidentified speaker at the demonstration said Guerrero had not taken her own life and accused others of violence: 'Someone beaten her to death, dragged her body, and put her there to cover it up,' the speaker said. Protesters also relayed that Guerrero's mother, who was in tears while holding a photo of her daughter, said she did not know anyone living in the building where the body was found and that the family lives about two blocks away.

Speakers raised a possibility referred to in the crowd — 'did Pamela know somebody in the building, or did someone place her there' — and invoked a remark attributed to Bishop Boyd as suggesting a cover-up. One protester argued the circumstances were inconsistent with suicide: 'If it was suicidal, she would've came off the roof and on the ground, not in the basement.'

Organizers said they will continue pressing for information from the New York Police Department. The reporter on scene said Guerrero's funeral had been attended by many who spoke about her life as a daughter, sister, school teacher and paralegal.

Kyrie Moody, reporting for Bronsonette, filed the on-scene report.