{"id":186699,"date":"2026-04-06T01:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186699\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:25:05","slug":"brooklyn-double-shooting-two-men-in-critical-condition-person-of-interest-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186699\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn double shooting: Two men in critical condition, person of interest questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_5276.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"DSC_5276\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn double shooting: Two men in critical condition, person of interest questioned 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police are questioning a person of interest on Easter Sunday evening after two men were shot on a Brooklyn Street and were left fighting for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> are questioning a person of interest after two men were shot and left fighting for their lives on Easter Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the gunfire erupted just before 6 p.m. on April 5 outside of a deli located at 2961 Fulton St. in Cypress Hills. Cops say a 30-year-old man and a 50-year-old man were shot multiple times throughout the body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137841764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_5266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"Brooklyn double shooting: Two men in critical condition, person of interest questioned 2\"  \/>Police are questioning a person of interest on Easter Sunday evening after two men were shot on a Brooklyn Street and were left fighting for their lives.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>Both victims were rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where they were listed in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p>NYPD sources say a 24-year-old man was taken into custody, and a firearm was recovered. A motive for the shooting has yet to be established.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd75pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">75th Precinct<\/a> immediately established a crime scene and could be seen investigating near a large number of shell casings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137841765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_5250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"860\" title=\"Brooklyn double shooting: Two men in critical condition, person of interest questioned 3\"  \/>Police are questioning a person of interest on Easter Sunday evening after two men were shot on a Brooklyn Street and were left fighting for their lives.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are questioning a person of interest on Easter Sunday evening after two men were shot on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[101,98,100,99,303,9,24,63,103,104,1096],"class_list":{"0":"post-186699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-police","18":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186699","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=186699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}