{"id":114050,"date":"2026-01-27T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114050\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:51:09","slug":"cop-shoots-dog-while-responding-to-queens-pit-bull-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114050\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop shoots dog while responding to Queens pit bull attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkwug634004501ulx1pkwxxy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 An officer shot a dog on Tuesday morning when police responded to a reported pit bull attack in Queens, sources told 1010 WINS.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkwughru00113b7v3hkdqc91@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">A 911 caller reported around 7 a.m that pit bulls were attacking people at a bus stop near 118-56 Francis Lewis Blvd. in St. Albans.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkwughve00123b7vdsx634jp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">When officers responded to the scene they spotted two dogs and one man with a dog bite injury.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkwughy900133b7voqefeila@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">One of the pit bulls was shot, sources said. The condition of the animal was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkwugi0y00143b7v3gqyaqu6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The injured man was taken to an area hospital for treatment, and multiple officers sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkwugi7n00153b7vvljynqba@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The shooting comes less than a week after an NYPD officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/1010wins\/news\/local\/nypd-officer-on-modified-duty-after-shooting-raccoon\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatally shot an \u201caggressive\u201d raccoon<\/a> at Rockaway Beach Boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Kseniya Zhukova\/Getty Images, File Photo\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 An officer shot a dog on Tuesday morning when police responded to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-114050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}