{"id":163085,"date":"2026-03-14T03:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163085\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T03:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:48:41","slug":"man-36-fatally-shot-in-head-right-near-his-queens-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163085\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 36, fatally shot in head right near his Queens home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was fatally shot in the head just three blocks from his Queens apartment on Friday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jairo Javier Vinces-Cobena, 36, was shot outside a residential building on 55th Ave., a short walk from his apartment on 98th St. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/24\/queens-assistant-principal-arrested-on-federal-prostitution-charges-for-pimping-out-porn-star\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Corona;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Corona&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Corona<\/a>, around 7:49 p.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Medics rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/elmhurst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Elmhurst Hospital;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Elmhurst Hospital&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Elmhurst Hospital<\/a>, where he died, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was fatally shot in the head just three blocks from his Queens apartment on Friday, cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[11524,5373,67284,9,24,63,122,124,123,10173],"class_list":["post-163085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-apartment","tag-fatally-shot-in-the-head","tag-javier-vinces-cobena","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-residential-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163085","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=163085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}