{"id":793860,"date":"2026-07-11T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793860\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:31:10","slug":"man-killed-in-triple-shooting-at-harlem-basketball-court-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793860\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in triple shooting at Harlem basketball court, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed and two people were wounded Friday in a shooting at a basketball court in Harlem, the New York Police Department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the NYPD, two men and a woman were shot at around 10:30 p.m. at the basketball court behind 70 Lenox Ave., between 112th St. and 115th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers said they found Kinu Rochford, 35, in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. A 28-year-old man was also shot in the shin and a 22-year-old woman was shot in the right forearm.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/harlem-shooting-am-vo-wcbsiebr-hi-res-still-00-01-0026.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"harlem-shooting-am-vo-wcbsiebr-hi-res-still-00-01-0026.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Rochford, of Brooklyn, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Morningside, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He is a former college basketball player at FDU in New Jersey, according to the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FDU is devastated to hear of the tragic passing of former men&#8217;s basketball player Kinu Rochford (&#8217;13). A standout Knight and leader, Rochford built a legacy in Hackensack. He was 35 years old,&#8221; the FDU Knights&#8217; said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dap-G-XxEGc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">an Instagram post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other man and woman were hospitalized in stable condition, according to police. Their names were not released.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known what led to the shooting. The NYPD said the investigation was ongoing and no arrests had been made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers hotline at\u00a01-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish,\u00a01-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via their website<\/a>\u00a0or via DM on Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls are kept confidential.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed and two people were wounded Friday in a shooting at a basketball court in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,54187,85],"class_list":["post-793860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-harlem","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}