{"id":188735,"date":"2026-04-07T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188735\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:24:32","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brownsville-man-identified-as-victim-in-morris-heights-fatal-shooting-4-people-on-the-run-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188735\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brownsville man identified as victim in Morris Heights fatal shooting; 4 people on the run, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities identified a Brownsville man as the victim of a fatal shooting in Morris Heights. Police sources tell News 12 a man and three women remain on the run in connection with that shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found Elyjah Williams, 21, with a gunshot wound to his head <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/nypd-21-year-old-victim-in-critical-condition-after-shooting-in-morris-heights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inside 1930 Harrison Ave. <\/a>just before 11 p.m. on March 29. Williams was killed nearly 20 miles from his home.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they initially responded to a 911 call for an assault inside the apartment building when they made the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics rushed the 21-year-old to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he fought for his life. Authorities say he died the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities identified a Brownsville man as the victim of a fatal shooting in Morris Heights. Police sources tell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,6616,786,2988,9,24,63,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-188735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-brownsville","12":"tag-fatal-shooting","13":"tag-morris-heights","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nypd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188735","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=188735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}