{"id":179921,"date":"2026-03-30T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179921\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:18:07","slug":"security-guard-shot-near-nycs-madison-square-park-in-broad-daylight-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179921\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard shot near NYC&#8217;s Madison Square Park in broad daylight attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A security guard at a Manhattan shelter was shot Monday afternoon near Madison Square Park \u2014 and police believe the assailant opened fire over an ongoing clash, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, 49, was blasted in the torso just after 12:30 p.m. on Madison Avenue near East 28th Street in NoMad \u2013 steps from The Prince George, a shelter run by the organization Breaking Ground, where he works, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38939148\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/nypd-investigation-daylight-shooting-e-124726405.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD officers investigate a daylight shooting on E 28th St. in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-38939148\"  \/>Police at the scene of a shooting involving a security guard in Manhattan. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38939171\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/shell-casing-removed-around-east-124726461.jpg\" alt=\"An NYPD Evidence Collection Team member retrieves a shell casing from a street.\" class=\"wp-image-38939171\"  \/>A shell casing is recovered. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The victim knew the shooter, and the pair had an ongoing dispute, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect apparently came back to the shelter and shot the guard, days after their feud began, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what, if any, connection the suspected shooter had to the shelter.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A security guard at a Manhattan shelter was shot Monday afternoon near Madison Square Park \u2014 and police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49902,57,9,56,63,65,64,21471,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-179921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-madison-square-park","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-shelters","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179921","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=179921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}