{"id":131490,"date":"2026-02-12T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131490\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:00:08","slug":"man-shot-dead-inside-nyc-7-eleven-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131490\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead inside NYC 7-Eleven: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 40-year-old panhandler was shot dead inside a Midtown 7-Eleven after he held the door open for the gunman and asked him for money Thursday morning, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was blasted in the neck around 10:30 a.m. inside the convenience store on Eighth Avenue near West 39th Street, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38471413\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/021126-nypd-respond-shooting-inside-121084101.jpg\" alt=\"A yellow &quot;CRIME SCENE - DO NOT CROSS&quot; tape hangs above a person's leg, a black jacket, a red Lot-Less shopping bag, and a bundled blanket on the pavement.\" class=\"wp-image-38471413\"  \/>NYPD sets up crime scene tape outside the NYC 7-Eleven where a man was shot to death Thursday morning. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38471411\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/021126-nypd-respond-shooting-inside-121084120.jpg\" alt=\"A yellow &quot;CRIME SCENE - DO NOT CROSS&quot; tape hangs above a person's leg, a black jacket, a red Lot-Less shopping bag, and a bundled blanket on the pavement.\" class=\"wp-image-38471411\"  \/>The 40-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead minutes later by EMS workers at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Before the shooting, the victim had been holding the door open for customers in hopes of getting money, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Another man \u2013 who appeared to have known the door-holder \u2013 said something to him as he entered the store, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>The victim then followed the aggressor inside as tensions flared, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the victim grabbed a bottle off the shelf \u2013 appearing as though he was about to throw it at the other man \u2013 before the gunman opened fire, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter \u2013 last seen wearing a face mask, green jacket, dark-colored pants and a black backpack \u2013 fled on foot, heading south on Eighth Avenue, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been made by the early afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old panhandler was shot dead inside a Midtown 7-Eleven after he held the door open for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56340,57,9,56,63,65,64,3980,58],"class_list":["post-131490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-7-eleven","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131490","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=131490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}