{"id":141085,"date":"2026-02-21T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141085\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:57:34","slug":"man-34-killed-following-queens-sports-bar-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141085\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 34, killed following Queens sports bar shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 34-year-old man was shot to death at a Queens sports bar early Saturday \u2014 the fourth bloody attack to take place at a city nightspot<\/a> in a week, officials said.<\/p>\n

Denis Nunez was inside the El Catracho sports bar<\/a> on Jamaica Ave. near 184th Place in Hollis when someone began shooting at around 1:45 a.m.<\/p>\n

Cops said bullets hit Nunez in the stomach and left shoulder. EMS rushed him to Jamaica Hospital, but he could not be saved.<\/p>\n

The gunman ran off and was still being sought by authorities.<\/p>\n

Cops were scouring the area looking for surveillance video that could help them figure out what sparked the shooting and identify the gunman.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s murder was the third shooting to take place in a city bar or nightclub in the last week.<\/p>\n

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Cops said bullets hit Nunez in the stomach and left shoulder. EMS rushed him to Jamaica Hospital, but he could not be saved. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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Cops were scouring the area looking for surveillance video that could help them figure out what sparked the shooting and identify the gunman. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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Police guard this silver Toyota Tundra pickup truck seen here in the middle of Jamaica Avenue about one block west of El Catracho on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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Cops said bullets hit Nunez in the stomach and left shoulder. EMS rushed him to Jamaica Hospital, but he could not be saved. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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Cops said bullets hit Nunez in the stomach and left shoulder. EMS rushed him to Jamaica Hospital, but he could not be saved. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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Two shootings in which three people were wounded as well as a stabbing occurred within a three-hour span on Feb. 14, cops said.<\/p>\n

During one of the shootings, Sheriff Shittu, a 30-year-old aspiring fashion designer, was fatally shot in the head<\/a> after a tussle with a drunk patron who had groped his girlfriend.<\/p>\n

The gunman opened fire inside Quilox Restaurant and Lounge<\/a> in East Flatbush at around 4:25 a.m. that Saturday, cops said.<\/p>\n

Shittu was accompanied to the club by his younger brother, Fawaz Shittu, to celebrate a friend\u2019s birthday a day before their mother was due to arrive for a visit from their native Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\"SheriffSheriff Shittu, 30, a Nigerian fashion designer, was fatally shot during a birthday party at the Quilox Lounge in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Feb. 14, 2026. (Courtesy of the Family)<\/p>\n

\u201cI was screaming his name,\u201d Fawaz said, recalling the aftermath of the shooting that killed his brother. \u201cI was trying to wake him up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sheriff got into an altercation with his killer after the stranger started drunkenly touching women, including the victim\u2019s girlfriend, according to Fawaz.<\/p>\n

Turned off by the disturbance, the brothers left the club less than an hour after arriving, he said. They returned minutes later after realizing Sheriff had left his cellphone behind.<\/p>\n

As they returned, the drunk customer was being escorted out, and the club\u2019s owner tried to convince the brothers to stay, Fawaz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe owner was saying, \u2018Don\u2019t mind that person \u2014 he\u2019s a crazy guy\u2019,\u201d Fawaz recounted. \u201cA few seconds later, I heard \u2018pow,\u2019 and I looked down and I saw my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less than three hours earlier, a fight broke out inside Tulum Brooklyn<\/a>, a late-night restaurant and lounge in Bedford-Stuyvesant. During the brawl, a 23-year-old man was stabbed in the armpit with a sharp object, cops said.<\/p>\n

\"WorkersWorkers clean up after a 23-year-old man was stabbed in the armpit with a sharp object when a fight broke out inside Tulum Brooklyn, a late-night restaurant and lounge on Broadway near Hart St. in Bedford Stuyvesant, early Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The nightspot was\u00a0hosting its annual \u201cPink Party\u201d<\/a> at the time the stabbing occurred.<\/p>\n

Just before 2 a.m., a 36-year-old man was shot in the stomach and a 38-year-old man was shot once in each leg during a clash inside El Palenque Hall in Crotona Park East in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

Both men were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries, cops said.<\/p>\n

The NYPD said 2025 was the city\u2019s\u00a0safest year since the department began keeping modern-day crime stats in 1994<\/a>, with a 20% drop in homicides and a 24% drop in shootings.<\/p>\n

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