{"id":175932,"date":"2026-03-26T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/175932\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:19:30","slug":"man-29-shot-to-death-in-queens-burger-bar-restaurant-for-no-reason-dad-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/175932\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 29, shot to death in Queens burger bar restaurant for \u2018no reason,\u2019 dad says"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 29-year-old man was shot to death early Tuesday inside a popular Queens burger bar restaurant, police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

MTA bus driver Demitri McKay Jr. was shot in the left arm inside 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

His heartbroken father, Demitri McKay Sr. posted on Facebook that his son was at the \u201cwrong place, wrong time\u201d and killed for \u201cno reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart is broken into a million pieces,\u201d he wrote. \u201c(He was) a great man who loved the lord with all his heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victim joined the MTA in 2024, according to public payroll records. He had no criminal history, cops say.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrdinarily he stays home because he was a home body,\u201d his grieving dad posted. \u201c(Last) night he decided to go out with his girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTotal tragedy struck him and my family,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m so broken. (God) please strengthen my family and I because this one really hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medics rushed McKay Jr. to Jamaica Hospital<\/a>, where he died a short time later. He lived in Queens Village.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2 McKay Jr., who enjoyed working out and keeping fit, would have turned 30 in August, his father said.<\/p>\n

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

Hangar 11 is open until 3 a.m. on Monday nights and has a lively bar scene.<\/p>\n

Cops on Tuesday were scouring the area for surveillance footage<\/a> that could help them track the shooting suspects down.<\/p>\n

With Colin Mixson<\/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.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[71435,71436,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-175932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-demitri-mckay-jr","tag-demitri-mckay-sr","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\/175932","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=175932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}