{"id":187924,"date":"2026-04-07T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:53:08","slug":"brazen-gunman-charged-for-fatal-easter-sunday-shooting-on-nyc-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187924\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazen gunman charged for fatal Easter Sunday shooting on NYC sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Honduran national has been charged with<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/05\/us-news\/1-dead-1-in-critical-condition-after-brazen-easter-sunday-shooting-on-nyc-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> relentlessly shooting two men on a Brooklyn sidewalk on Easter Sunday<\/a> \u2014 leaving one young victim dead and the other critically injured, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Mendoza Cardona, 24, was charged on Monday with murder, attempted murder, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the deadly shooting that unfolded Sunday evening outside a building on Fulton Street in Cypress Hills, according to sources and the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39010424\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/surveillance-video-grabs-brooklyn-2-125089985.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance video still showing a person pointing a gun at another person on the ground.\" class=\"wp-image-39010424\"  \/>Michael Mendoza Cardona, 24, has been charged with the caught-on-camera shooting of two men on a Brooklyn sidewalk on Easter Sunday. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>Harrowing surveillance footage allegedly captured Mendoza Cardona shooting Jose Urena Moran, 30, and a 50-year-old man underneath the elevated J-train subway platform between Cleveland and Elton streets.<\/p>\n<p>The clip obtained by The Post captured the two men standing on the sidewalk near a group of about three men. <\/p>\n<p>After one of the men in the pair appeared to say something to the crew, the alleged killer whipped out a gun and calmly fired several shots at him and the man he was standing near.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39010437\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brooklyn-2-shot-seriously-injured-125084925_9e9be4.jpg\" alt=\"Police at a shooting crime scene in front of 2961 Fulton Street, with bullet casings marked by cups.\" class=\"wp-image-39010437\"  \/>Both unidentified men were taken to Brookdale University Medical Center in critical condition. Jose Urena Moran, 30,  was later pronounced dead. David Burns\/@FD4D for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The brazen gunman continued to pump bullets into the victims even as they lay motionless on the sidewalk, the disturbing footage showed.<\/p>\n<p>Both unidentified men were taken to Brookdale University Medical Center in critical condition. Moran, of Cypress Hills, was later pronounced dead, police said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if Mendoza Cardona was in the country illegally. The Post has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for clarity. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Honduran national has been charged with relentlessly shooting two men on a Brooklyn sidewalk on Easter Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,98,57,3411,9,56,63,65,64,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-187924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-migrants","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-shootings","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187924","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=187924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}