{"id":161041,"date":"2026-03-12T02:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161041\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:25:07","slug":"3-arrested-in-2023-shooting-death-of-16-year-old-queens-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161041\/","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested in 2023 shooting death of 16-year-old Queens girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men were arrested Wednesday in connection to the 2023 shooting death of a teenage girl in Queens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/claudia-quatey-funeral-queens-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Claudia Quatey<\/a>, 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/16-year-old-girl-shot-lucas-street-queens\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was shot in the head on Lucas Street near 121st Avenue in the St. Albans section<\/a> on May 10, 2023. She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/16-year-old-claudia-quatey-shot-near-st-albans-elementary-school-fighting-for-her-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">taken to a local hospital<\/a>, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 21-year-old Zaire Rolley, a 20-year-old man and a 19-year-old man have each been charged with murder, conspiracy and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The identities of the 20-year-old and the 19-year-old were not immediately released. Both would have been minors at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators originally said Quatey was outside an elementary school with a group of friends when they got into a dispute with other people. Police said Quatey was sitting in the backseat of a car when she was struck by a stray bullet. They did not believe she was the intended target.<\/p>\n<p>Further details about Wednesday&#8217;s arrests were not immediately released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men were arrested Wednesday in connection to the 2023 shooting death of a teenage girl in Queens.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-161041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161041","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=161041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}