By Tuan Nguyen and Wil Cruz
DNAinfo Staff
QUEENS — A woman was found bludgeoned to death in her Astoria apartment Thursday, and cops are trying to locate her husband, police said.
Tara Hawes, 33, was found bloodied from severe head injuries when authorities discovered her body in her second-floor apartment in 26-80 30th Street just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators initially believed that her throat had been cut because of the amount of blood, a police source said. The medical examiner later ruled that possibility out, determing she suffered blunt force trauma to the head.
No one has been arrested, and police are currently looking to question the victim's husband, Jordan Hawes, 32, regarding her death.
Neighbors said they heard the couple quarrelling at times, describing the husband as soft-spoken during encounters with other residents.
"He doesn't really speak to other people, though he doesn't sound like a bad person," said one neighbor, Fabian, who declined to provide his last name. "I feel bad for the girl. I cried in my heart."
Another neighbor said he often ran into the husband while the man was out walking his large Labrador.
"Sometimes I met him three times a day when walking my dog," said Alejandro Tellez, 27, who's lived in the building for 18 years, adding the last time he saw the man was last weekend.
"She's more a friendly person and always said hi to people," he said. "He more kept to himself."
