{"id":160968,"date":"2026-03-12T00:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160968\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:27:07","slug":"gunman-busted-after-driver-found-shot-dead-slumped-over-wheel-of-suv-in-nyc-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160968\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman busted after driver found shot dead, slumped over wheel of SUV in NYC: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Georgia man was found shot dead behind the wheel of an SUV in Brooklyn this week, and his alleged killer \u2013 a local to the area \u2013 was arrested several hours later, cops said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Williams, 38, of Atlanta, was discovered around 1:35 a.m. Tuesday slumped over inside the parked black Chevy Equinox \u2013 with gunshot wounds to the torso and arm \u2013 on West 35th Street near Bay View Avenue in Coney Island, according to cops and photos from the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NYPD officers were responding to a call for shots fired when they made the grisly discovery, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38749977\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ronald-williams-38-georgia-found-123324005.jpg\" alt=\"Ronald Williams, 38, of Atlanta, was found early Tuesday slumped over inside the parked black Chevy Equinox with gunshot wounds to the torso and arm, cops said.\" class=\"wp-image-38749977\"  \/>Ronald Williams, 38, of Atlanta, was found early Tuesday slumped over inside the parked black Chevy Equinox with gunshot wounds to the torso and arm, cops said. News12<\/p>\n<p>Williams was pronounced dead by responding EMS workers, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged gunman, Eugene Ohemeng, 31, who lived about a half-mile from the scene, was arrested around 8:50 p.m. and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ohemeng\u2019s relationship to Williams \u2013 and the motive for the deadly gunfire \u2013 remain under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38749980\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ronald-williams-38-georgia-found-123324004.jpg\" alt=\"Ronald Williams, 38, of Atlanta, was discovered around 1:35 a.m. Tuesday slumped over inside the parked black Chevy Equinox \u2013 with gunshot wounds to the torso and arm \u2013 on West 35th Street near Bay View Avenue in Coney Island, according to cops and photos from the scene.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-38749980\"  \/>Eugene Ohemeng, 31, was arrested and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, police said. News12<\/p>\n<p>Ohemeng\u2019s arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Wednesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Georgia man was found shot dead behind the wheel of an SUV in Brooklyn this week, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,119,303,1027,57,9,56,63,65,64,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-160968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-coney-island","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-homicide","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-shootings","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160968","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=160968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}