{"id":174594,"date":"2026-03-25T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174594\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:41:10","slug":"29-year-old-shot-inside-queens-sports-bar-dies-suspects-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174594\/","title":{"rendered":"29-year-old shot inside Queens sports bar dies; suspects sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot-2026-03-25-085114.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">QUEENS, N.Y. &#8211; A night out turned deadly in Queens after a 29-year-old man was shot inside a Kew Gardens sports bar early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Officers responded to a 911 call around 1:35 a.m. for an assault inside Hangar 11 Sports Bar on Metropolitan Avenue in Kew Gardens.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">When officers arrived, they found a 29-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his left arm.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The victim was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police have identified the victim as Demitri McKay, 29, of Queens Village.<\/p>\n<p>  What police are saying <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Authorities say there are no arrests at this time and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police said it is still unclear whether the victim was a patron or an employee at the bar.<\/p>\n<p> Suspect description <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Investigators are searching for two male suspects who were seen wearing masks.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police say one suspect was wearing a black Nike tracksuit, while the other was wearing a pink Nike tracksuit.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Officials have not released details about what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">It is also unclear how many shots were fired or whether the victim was targeted.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police are continuing to investigate and are asking anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/queens\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article QUEENS, N.Y. &#8211; A night out turned deadly in Queens after a 29-year-old man was shot inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[850,9,24,12,56,63,122,124,123,618],"class_list":["post-174594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174594","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=174594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}