{"id":144433,"date":"2026-02-25T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144433\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:08:12","slug":"man-22-shot-by-stranger-in-unprovoked-burst-of-violence-while-walking-home-in-nyc-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144433\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 22, shot by stranger in unprovoked burst of violence while walking home in NYC: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old man was shot by a stranger in what appeared to be an unprovoked burst of violence as he walked home in Brooklyn late Monday, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was suddenly blasted in the right arm as he walked in front of an apartment building on MacDonough Street near Howard Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 10 p.m., police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33507171;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38592839\" width=\"788\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/22-year-old-man-shot-122129532.jpg\" alt=\"The victim took a bullet to the right arm on his way home around 10 p.m. Monday on  MacDonough Street near Howard Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said. \" class=\"wp-image-38592839\"  \/>The victim took a bullet to the right arm on his way home around 10 p.m. Monday on  MacDonough Street near Howard Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said.  Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>He did not know the shooter, sources said \u2013 but it remained unclear Tuesday whether he was the intended target or an innocent bystander.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been made by Tuesday afternoon and a suspect description was not available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The violence came a week after a 23-year-old woman believed to be an innocent bystander <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/18\/us-news\/23-year-old-woman-shot-in-leg-on-nyc-street\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was shot<\/a> in the leg in front of a building in Ridgewood, Queens, police said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Four people \u2013 Thomas Tyler, 23, and three 17-year-old boys \u2013 were arrested in connection to that shooting, which was believed to be gang-related, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old man was shot by a stranger in what appeared to be an unprovoked burst of violence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4987,98,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-144433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-bedford-stuyvesant","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-shootings","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144433","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=144433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}