{"id":180776,"date":"2026-03-31T12:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:58:39","slug":"police-fatally-shoot-dog-in-queens-after-it-bites-woman-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180776\/","title":{"rendered":"Police fatally shoot dog in Queens after it bites woman, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"fmyln\">Police officers fatally shot a dog in Queens on Monday night after it bit and injured a woman, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"c52f5\">Officials said officers arrived at the New York City Housing Authority\u2019s Ocean Bay Apartments in Edgemere just before 9 p.m., responding to a 911 call about a dangerous animal.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d9a7h\">Inside a building on Beach 58th Street near Beach Channel Drive, they found a pit bull attacking a 28-year-old woman, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cbrnt\">Authorities said one officer discharged their firearm, killing the dog. No people were hit by the gunfire, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"br0a\">The woman was taken to a local hospital in stable condition for treatment for a laceration wound from the dog bite, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"b2b8q\">Officials said the NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division was looking into the incident. Police did not make any immediate arrests in the case.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dr64m\">This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers fatally shot a dog in Queens on Monday night after it bit and injured a woman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-180776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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\/180776","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=180776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}