{"id":119916,"date":"2026-02-02T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:05:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-passerby-shoots-man-in-gowanus-after-initiating-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119916\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Passerby shoots man in Gowanus after initiating conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a person who shot a man Wednesday night in Gowanus.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the suspect approached the 27-year-old victim at Sackett Street and 3rd Avenue and started a conversation with him. He then pulled out a gun and shot him in the right leg.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was hospitalized and is expected to recover, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information is asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a person who shot a man Wednesday night in Gowanus.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,464,9,24,63,103,1096],"class_list":{"0":"post-119916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-gowanus","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119916","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=119916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}