{"id":195307,"date":"2026-04-13T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195307\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:44:35","slug":"man-shot-to-death-by-16-year-old-stepson-in-clash-over-smoking-in-brooklyn-apartment-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195307\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot to death by 16-year-old stepson in clash over smoking in Brooklyn apartment: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD cops are hunting for a 16-year-old boy who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/new-york-city\/mamdani-nypd-crime-stats-shooting\/6484783\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot his stepfather to death<\/a> during an argument over smoking inside their Brooklyn NYCHA apartment, according to a report Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Victim Jamel Davis, 43, was shot in the upper body inside his home in NYCHA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parleny.com\/whitman-houses-embodies-fort-greenes-enduring-nycha-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walt Whitman Houses<\/a> on Cumberland Walk near Carlton Ave. in Fort Greene about 10:50 a.m. Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/brooklyn\/nyp-brooklyn-methodist-hospital?utm_source=yextgmb&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=yext_doctor_listings&amp;y_source=1_MTM4MTIwMjYtNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital,<\/a> where he died.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A 42yr old man was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital after he was shot in the torso inside apartment 12-E at 75 Cumberland Walk in Brooklyn on Sunday April 12, 2026. 1305. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" height=\"275\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-P10-20260412-130834.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8775091\" \/>Police at the scene where authorities said a 43-year-old man was shot and killed by his 16-year-old stepson in an apartment building in Brooklyn. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as cops try to find the victim\u2019s stepson, who is wanted for questioning<\/p>\n<p>Davis was shot during an argument with the stepson <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/teen-boy-sought-fatal-shooting-stepfather-brooklyn-nycha-apartment\/18878874\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over smoking inside the apartment<\/a>, a police source told ABC 7 New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD cops are hunting for a 16-year-old boy who shot his stepfather to death during an argument over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-195307","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-city","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195307","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=195307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}