{"id":179790,"date":"2026-03-30T16:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179790\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:28:28","slug":"suspect-sought-for-brooklyn-shooting-that-left-man-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179790\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect sought for Brooklyn shooting that left man dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-30-at-11.49.34-AM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Police at scene in Brooklyn where man was shot dead\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn cops seek person of interest after man shot dead near home in broad daylight 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn detectives are on the hunt for the suspect who shot a man dead in broad daylight in East New York on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot via Citizen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> detectives are on the hunt for the suspect who shot a man dead in broad daylight on Monday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the victim, a 40-year-old man, was gunned down in front of a home at 410 Wortman Ave., off Ashford Street, in East New York at about 9:10 a.m. on March 30.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd75pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">75th Precinct<\/a> responded to the location after receiving a 911 call about the shooting. When they arrived, cops said, they found the victim shot in the torso and right leg.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the shooting remains unknown and under investigation, police sources said.\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?attachment_id=137840565\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-137840565 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137840565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-30-at-11.56.43-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Scene in Brooklyn where man was shot dead\" width=\"1200\" height=\"867\" title=\"Brooklyn cops seek person of interest after man shot dead near home in broad daylight 2\"  \/><\/a>Authorities said the victim, a 40-year-old man, was gunned down in front of a home at 410 Wortman Ave., off Ashford Street, in East New York at about 9:10 a.m. on March 30.Photo via Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the victim to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police have not yet released the victim\u2019s identity, pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation. Detectives are now searching for a person of interest in the shooting, described as a man wearing a ski mask, a blue hooded sweatshirt, gray jeans and multi-colored sneakers, who was spotted fleeing after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the shooting can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Through March 22, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-075pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">75th Precinct reported nine shootings and 11 victims year-to-date<\/a>, up from the eight shootings and 10 victims reported at the same point in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn detectives are on the hunt for the suspect who shot a man dead in broad daylight in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10393,98,100,72622,99,782,72623,784,58366,72624,72625,72626,9,24,63,41983,64284,28181,7343,30726,69348],"class_list":{"0":"post-179790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-75th-precinct","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-murder","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-brooklyn-shooting","14":"tag-brooklyn-violence","15":"tag-crime-stoppers","16":"tag-daytime-shooting","17":"tag-east-new-york-neighborhood","18":"tag-east-new-york-crime","19":"tag-gun-violence-brooklyn","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-nyc-homicide","24":"tag-nyc-crime-news","25":"tag-nypd-detectives","26":"tag-person-of-interest","27":"tag-shooting-investigation","28":"tag-shooting-suspect"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179790","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=179790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}