{"id":172817,"date":"2026-03-24T00:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:32:07","slug":"16-year-old-boy-critically-injured-with-gunshot-wound-to-chest-in-brooklyn-nycha-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172817\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old boy critically injured with gunshot wound to chest in Brooklyn NYCHA complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 16-year-old boy was left clinging to life after a gunman shot him in the chest inside a Brooklyn NYCHA complex on Monday, cops said.<\/p>\n

The victim was struck inside a residential tower within the Sheepshead Bay Houses<\/a> located on Ave. X near Brown St. around 5:56 p.m., according to law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the victim to South Brooklyn Health<\/a> in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n

Cops are looking for a man wearing a blue hat, who was last seen fleeing the scene on foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy was left clinging to life after a gunman shot him in the chest inside a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-172817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","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-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172817","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=172817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}