{"id":137070,"date":"2026-02-18T06:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137070\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:45:07","slug":"23-year-old-woman-shot-in-leg-on-nyc-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137070\/","title":{"rendered":"23-year-old woman shot in leg on NYC street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old woman believed to be an innocent bystander was shot in the leg in front of a building in a buzzy Queens neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon \u2014 as a suspect remains on the lam.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a 911 call about a woman who was shot in front of a building on Wyckoff Avenue and Stephen Street in Ridgewood just before 3:00 p.m., according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38524390\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/police-searching-gunman-shot-woman-121597965.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers investigating a crime scene where a woman was shot in the leg.\" class=\"wp-image-38524390\"  \/>A 23-year-old woman was shot in the leg in front of a building on Wyckoff Avenue and Stephen Street in Ridgewood. ABC7<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving on the scene, cops discovered the young woman who was conscious and alert with a gunshot wound to her left leg, police said.<\/p>\n<p>EMS responded and took the woman to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in stable condition, authorities added.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38524388\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/police-searching-gunman-shot-woman-121597983.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer stands behind yellow crime scene tape on a street where a woman was shot in Queens.\" class=\"wp-image-38524388\"  \/>EMS responded and took the woman to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition. ABC7<\/p>\n<p>Cops could not immediately confirm if the woman was the intended target of the gunfire or whether multiple suspects were involved.<\/p>\n<p>However, police sources<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/queens-shooting-23-year-old-woman-innocent-bystander-shot-leg-ridgewood\/18613584\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> told ABC7<\/a> that the victim was an innocent bystander and that a dark sedan with four men inside pulled up and began shooting. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just heard, like, six or seven shots go off at the same time insane,\u201d a witness told the outlet. \u201cAnd, I heard screaming, like, throughout the whole complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are no arrests in the shooting as of Tuesday evening and the investigation remains ongoing, according to cops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old woman believed to be an innocent bystander was shot in the leg in front of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,2613,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-137070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-ridgewood","17":"tag-shootings","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137070","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=137070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}