{"id":15058,"date":"2025-10-24T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15058\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:33:11","slug":"man-shot-in-the-head-and-critically-injured-in-brooklyn-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15058\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot in the head and critically injured in Brooklyn, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_6969.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"An NYPD officer stands behind police tape in the parking lot of a NYCHA complex in East Williamsburg on Oct. 23, after a 39-year-old man was shot in the head and critically injured.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Man shot in the head and critically injured in Brooklyn, police say 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD officer stands behind police tape in the parking lot of a NYCHA complex in East Williamsburg on Oct. 23, after a 39-year-old man was shot in the head and critically injured. <\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A 39-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot in the head Thursday afternoon in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/police-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=94th+Precinct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">94th Precinct<\/a> responded to a ShotSpotter activation and a 911 call reporting a man shot near 275 Jackson St. around 3:30 p.m., authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the East Williamsburg NYCHA complex, they did not find the victim at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man had been taken to Woodhull Hospital by private means, where he was listed in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.\n<\/p>\n<p>Detectives recovered multiple shell casings in the parking lot of the Cooper Park Houses.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137805808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5913.jpg\" alt=\"Detectives work inside the cordoned-off parking lot of a NYCHA complex\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" title=\"Man shot in the head and critically injured in Brooklyn, police say 2\"  \/>Detectives work inside the cordoned-off parking lot of a NYCHA complexPhoto by Lloyd Mitchell <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137805809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_5903.jpg\" alt=\"A shell casing lies on the ground in the parking lot of Cooper Park Houses \" width=\"700\" height=\"414\" title=\"Man shot in the head and critically injured in Brooklyn, police say 3\"  \/>A shell casing lies on the ground in the parking lot of Cooper Park HousesPhoto by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the shooting, two men were seen fleeing the scene in an unknown direction, according to police sources. A motive has not yet been determined.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 23 incident marks the fourth shooting this year in the 94th Precinct, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-094pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NYPD data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing, and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYPD officer stands behind police tape in the parking lot of a NYCHA complex in East Williamsburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[11067,98,100,99,2537,9,24,63,103,1096],"class_list":{"0":"post-15058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-94th-precinct","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-east-williamsburg","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058","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=15058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}