{"id":137352,"date":"2026-02-18T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137352\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:12:07","slug":"brooklyn-shooting-suspect-opens-fire-on-man-then-takes-his-phone-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137352\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn shooting suspect opens fire on man, then takes his phone: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-18-at-8.45.15-AM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Screenshot\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn shooting suspect opens fire on man, then takes his phone: cops 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn detectives are searching for the gun-toting bandit who shot a man and stole his cellphone on Feb. 17, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Screenshot from video courtesy of NYPD<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> detectives are searching for the gun-toting bandit who shot a man and stole his cellphone on Tuesday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said the incident happened just before 10:50 a.m. on Feb. 17 near the corner of Lincoln Place and Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights.\n<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the suspect approached the victim, a 30-year-old man, and engaged him in a verbal dispute. The argument turned bloody, cops said, when the perpetrator pulled out a firearm and pulled the trigger, striking the victim in the abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>After wounding the man, police reported, the gunman removed the victim\u2019s cellphone, then took off on foot northbound on Schenectady Avenue toward St. John\u2019s Place.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137832391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RMA-430-26-Robbery-77-Pct-2-17-26-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn shooting suspect\" width=\"381\" height=\"701\" title=\"Brooklyn shooting suspect opens fire on man, then takes his phone: cops 2\"  \/>The suspect behind a shooting in Brooklyn on Feb. 17, 2026.Photo courtesy of NYPD\n<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd77pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">77th Precinct<\/a>. EMS rushed the victim to Kings County Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Early Wednesday morning, the NYPD released images of the gunman sought for the shooting and robbery. Police described him as a man who wore a red baseball cap, a black-hooded jacket over a white shirt, black pants and multi-colored sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Video that the NYPD provided shows the suspect walking into a nearby bodega on the day of the shooting.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn detectives are searching for the gun-toting bandit who shot a man and stole his cellphone on Feb.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3926,1689,98,100,99,782,58364,10570,58365,58366,787,789,58367,9,24,63,791,10576,58368,58369,47621],"class_list":{"0":"post-137352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-77th-precinct","9":"tag-armed-robbery","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-brooklyn-shooting","14":"tag-cellphone-theft","15":"tag-crime-stoppers-tip-line","16":"tag-crown-heights-crime","17":"tag-daytime-shooting","18":"tag-gun-violence","19":"tag-kings-county-hospital","20":"tag-lincoln-place","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-city","23":"tag-nyc","24":"tag-nypd-investigation","25":"tag-public-safety-alert","26":"tag-schenectady-avenue","27":"tag-st-johns-place","28":"tag-suspect-sought"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352","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=137352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}