{"id":159701,"date":"2026-03-10T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159701\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:10:09","slug":"suspect-idd-in-fatal-queens-sports-bar-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159701\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect ID&#8217;d in fatal Queens sports bar shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect has been identified in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/21\/man-killed-queens-sports-bar-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a shooting at a Queens sports bar<\/a> that claimed the life of a 34-year-old man, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Paublo Torres, 21, is wanted for opening fire inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/locations\/1611700959136561\/sportsbar-el-catracho504\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Catracho sports bar<\/a> in Queens on Feb. 21, mortally wounding Denis Nunez with gunshot wounds to the stomach and left shoulder, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD also released a mug shot of Torres taken following a Dec. 8 arrest, when he was caught with a firearm, two switchblades and drugs just three blocks away from the 103rd Precinct station house in Queens, according to law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n<p>On the night of the shooting, Nunez was with his brother at the bar on Jamaica Ave. near 184th Place when a fight broke out around 1:45 a.m.,\u00a0 cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Denis Nunez was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital after he was shot multiple times at the El Catracho Sports Bar on Jamaica Ave. in Queens on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"6000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TNY-P36-20260221-073849.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8714976\" \/>Denis Nunez was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital after he was shot multiple times at the El Catracho Sports Bar on Jamaica Ave. in Queens on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Nunez had just stepped out of the bar when he was hit by bullets fired from inside the watering hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really know what happened because I was inside,\u201d Nunez\u2019s brother, who wished not to be named, told the Daily News. \u201cHe was outside already and somebody shoot him from inside the bar to outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A law enforcement source said the victim and the suspect had no relationship prior to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed Nunez to <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica Hospital<\/a>, where he died.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Denis Nunez was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital after he was shot multiple times at the El Catracho Sports Bar on Jamaica Ave. in Queens on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"6000\" height=\"768\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TNY-P25-20260221-073450.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8714981\" \/>A brother of the victim told the Daily News his brother was outside the sports bar when &#8220;somebody shoot him from inside the bar to outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to carry (him) to the hospital. That\u2019s why a lot of blood on me,\u201d he said. \u201cI stopped because I saw the ambulance come. Then they took him from there and they (didn\u2019t) let me go with him to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torres has been arrested five times in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect has been identified in a shooting at a Queens sports bar that claimed the life of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159702,"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-159701","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\/159701","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=159701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}