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Elizabeth Baron

Elizabeth Baron died after an NAD injection at a Bronx lifestyle center; a man is charged.

Charged · allegations
last updated 8 October 2026 · 3 sources
Confirmed facts
14
Open questions
4
Victim age
27
Next court
27 Oct 2026
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Case file Elizabeth Baron, reference D C zero two zero zero. According to investigators cited by CBS News New York, Elizabeth Baron, twenty-seven, visited Luis Rojas Cabrera’s Bronx office with her mother on July nineteenth, twenty twenty-six, for an NAD injection. CBS News New York, citing a criminal complaint, reported that Rojas Cabrera injected Baron with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, known as NAD plus, around noon. The complaint said he told police he injected her and called nine one one when she became unconscious; CBS News New York reported she was pronounced dead at a hospital. CBS News New York reported Rojas Cabrera initially faced reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice charges, and later turned himself in after a grand jury indictment on charges including second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide. Those charges are unproven allegations. According to prosecutors cited by CBS News New York, the city medical examiner ruled Baron’s death a homicide caused by a cardiac air embolism. The file’s open questions include what evidence prosecutors presented to the grand jury, the exact date of the medical examiner’s ruling, what plea, if any, was entered, and what will occur at the scheduled October twenty-seventh court appearance. This has been an automated reading of case file D C zero two zero zero at developing case dot com. Every fact you heard names a public source.

Timeline of what's confirmed14 entries
19 July 2026
Elizabeth Baron, 27, visited Luis Rojas Cabrera's Bronx office with her mother for an NAD injection, according to investigators cited by CBS News New York.
CBS News New York, citing investigators
19 July 2026
A criminal complaint said Rojas Cabrera injected the woman with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, known as NAD+, around noon.
CBS News New York, citing criminal complaint
19 July 2026
The criminal complaint stated that Rojas Cabrera told police he injected the woman and called 911 when she became unconscious; CBS News New York reported she was pronounced dead at a hospital.
CBS News New York, citing criminal complaint
21 July 2026
Rojas Cabrera was arraigned early Tuesday morning after the woman's death, according to CBS News New York.
CBS News New York
21 July 2026
Rojas Cabrera, 55, of Passaic, New Jersey, faced charges of reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice after the initial arrest, CBS News New York reported.
CBS News New York
21 July 2026
CBS News New York reported that no New York State records listed Rojas Cabrera as a licensed medical doctor and that court records said he did not have a medical license.
CBS News New York, citing court records
21 July 2026
Court records quoted by CBS News New York said Rojas Cabrera allegedly told officers, in substance, that he was a doctor in the Dominican Republic, had a physician assistant license in Puerto Rico, and was not a licensed doctor in New York.
CBS News New York, citing court records
22 July 2026
Police said Baron walked into Bereshit Lifestyle Center on Riverdale Avenue before receiving the NAD+ injection, CBS News New York reported.
CBS News New York, citing police
22 July 2026
CBS News New York reported that Rojas Cabrera had been released after arraignment and that his attorney declined comment at that time.
CBS News New York
6 October 2026
Officials said Rojas Cabrera turned himself in after a grand jury indictment on charges including second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide; the charges are unproven allegations.
CBS News New York, citing officials
6 October 2026
Authorities said Rojas Cabrera referred to himself as a doctor, operated the Bereshit Lifestyle Center on Riverdale Avenue, and was licensed in the United States only as an esthetician.
CBS News New York, citing authorities and investigators
6 October 2026
Prosecutors said the city medical examiner ruled Baron's death a homicide and determined the cause was a cardiac air embolism caused by air entering an intravenous catheter during the procedure.
CBS News New York, citing prosecutors
6 October 2026
Defense attorney Donald Vogelman said the murder charge was based on depraved-indifference murder and said the defense position was that the case involved an accident.
CBS News New York, citing Donald Vogelman
27 October 2026
Rojas Cabrera's next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 27, CBS News New York reported.
CBS News New York
Open questionsunconfirmed · not conclusions
What exact evidence did prosecutors present to the grand jury for the upgraded charges?unconfirmed; indictment details not available in trusted-source reporting reviewed · unconfirmed
What was the exact date of the city medical examiner's homicide ruling?unconfirmed; trusted-source reporting reviewed gave only the month · unconfirmed
What plea, if any, was entered after the upgraded indictment?unconfirmed; trusted-source reporting reviewed did not state a plea · unconfirmed
What will occur at the scheduled Oct. 27 court appearance?future event; not yet confirmed · unconfirmed
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