Luis Rojas Cabrera is charged with depraved-indifference murder in Elizabeth Baron's death.

Depraved-indifference murder is the charge the NYPD and the New York Post named on Wednesday. CBS New York reported the grand jury's murder count as second-degree murder, the statute that covers that theory, and listed manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide beside it. All of those captions are accusations. The medical examiner's cardiac air embolism finding is the city's conclusion about how Elizabeth Baron died. Rojas Cabrera told the Post the air could have come from prolonged CPR and that underlying conditions could be to blame. A jury has not adopted either account. He had been free because the July charges were not bail-eligible. That release was not an acquittal.

The NYPD and the New York Post reported Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, that Luis Rojas Cabrera has been charged with depraved-indifference murder in the death of Elizabeth Baron. News 12 reported he is under arrest on that murder charge, along with the earlier counts of reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice of a profession. Baron, 27, of the Bronx, died after an NAD+ IV at his Bereshit Lifestyle Center on Riverdale Avenue on July 19, 2026. The Post reported the medical examiner found she died of a cardiac air embolism. News 12 put his age at 56. The Post, and the complaint reporting this file has used since July, put him at 55. The age gap is a records conflict. It is not an element of the murder charge.

Court documents allege that after Baron went into cardiac arrest he told an officer, "I made a very big mistake," the Post reported. That line is an allegation about what he said to police. It is not a guilty plea. When the Post reached him last month, he said the air the examiner found could have come from prolonged CPR, the CPR he performed after he stopped the IV and the mechanical CPR medics performed when they arrived, and that underlying conditions could have caused the death. The Post reported the medical examiner concluded the death was a cardiac air embolism and that the report, as the paper described it, did not list an underlying condition. His explanation is a defense he gave a newspaper. The examiner's finding is what the city wrote on the death. A jury has not chosen between them.

He was first charged in July with reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice of a profession. The Post reported he pleaded not guilty at that arraignment and that those charges were not bail-eligible, so he had been free since then. News 12 reported that a criminal complaint quotes him telling police he is a doctor in the Dominican Republic, that he has a physician-assistant license in Puerto Rico, and that he is not a licensed doctor in New York. What he said about credentials elsewhere is his account. It is not a finding that he was allowed to give this IV in New York. CBS New York reported a grand jury indictment listing second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide, and that his lawyer described the murder count as depraved-indifference murder. Those are the charging papers. They are not a verdict. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.