{"id":137706,"date":"2026-02-18T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137706\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:47:07","slug":"woman-struck-in-leg-by-stray-bullet-on-queens-street-3-teens-among-4-suspects-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137706\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman struck in leg by stray bullet on Queens street, 3 teens among 4 suspects arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 23-year-old woman was struck in the leg by a stray bullet on a Queens street \u2014 and four suspects, three of them teenage boys, have been arrested after fleeing in an SUV, cops said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The innocent bystander was shot once in the leg on Wyckoff Ave. near Summerfield St. in Ridgewood about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said four people jumped out of a silver SUV, with one of the crew firing off a pistol. It was not immediately clear who they were aiming at, cops said. After firing off several rounds, the gunman and his accomplices jumped back into the SUV and sped off.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the woman to Brookdale University Hospital<\/a>, where she was treated for a minor wound.<\/p>\n

\"AThe innocent bystander was shot once in the leg on Wyckoff Ave. near Summerfield St. in Ridgewood about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, cops said. (Google)<\/p>\n

Cops tracked down and stopped the SUV a short time later, taking everyone inside into custody.<\/p>\n

Three 17-year-old boys, whose names were not released because of their ages, and 23-year-old Thomas Tyler were all charged with attempted murder, reckless endangerment and weapon possession. It wasn\u2019t clear which suspect is believed to be the actual shooter.<\/p>\n

Arraignments for the four suspectds were pending in Queens Criminal Court<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old woman was struck in the leg by a stray bullet on a Queens street \u2014 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-137706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137706","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=137706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}