{"id":173257,"date":"2026-03-24T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173257\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:33:08","slug":"man-29-shot-to-death-in-queens-burger-bar-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173257\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 29, shot to death in Queens burger bar restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man was shot to death early Tuesday inside a popular Queens burger bar restaurant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Demitri McKay was shot in the left arm inside <a href=\"https:\/\/hangar11nyc.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hangar 11<\/a> on Metropolitan Ave. near Lefferts Blvd. in Kew Gardens about 1:30 a.m., cops said. The bullet entered and exited his arm and wound up hitting his heart, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed McKay to <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica Hospital<\/a>, where he died a short time later. He lived in Queens Village, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate a fatal shooting at 119-11 Metropolitan Ave. in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3596\" height=\"768\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TNY-GA-260324-shooting03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8751209\" \/>Police investigate a fatal shooting on Metropolitan Ave. in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Tuesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Two men, one in a blue Nike track suit, the other wearing a pink hoodie, ran from the restaurant, witnesses told police. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Hangar 11 is open until 3 a.m. on Monday nights and has a lively bar scene.<\/p>\n<p>Cops on Tuesday were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/12\/26\/elite-nypd-squad-uses-surveillance-video-to-track-and-catch-criminals-we-take-a-lot-of-pride-in-our-work\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scouring the area for surveillance footage<\/a> that could help them track the shooting suspects down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate a fatal shooting at 119-11 Metropolitan Ave. in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3596\" height=\"768\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TNY-GA-260324-shooting01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8751206\" \/>Police investigate a fatal shooting on Metropolitan Ave. in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Tuesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate a fatal shooting at 119-11 Metropolitan Ave. in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3596\" height=\"768\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TNY-GA-260324-shooting02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8751205\" \/>Police investigate a fatal shooting on Metropolitan Ave. in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Tuesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old man was shot to death early Tuesday inside a popular Queens burger bar restaurant, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173258,"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-173257","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\/173257","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=173257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}