{"id":196085,"date":"2026-04-13T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:36:12","slug":"fatal-victim-of-nj-chick-fil-a-mass-shooting-idd-as-23-year-old-nyc-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196085\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal victim of NJ Chick-fil-A mass shooting ID&#8217;d as 23-year-old NYC man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The person <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/13\/us-news\/nj-chick-fil-a-shooting-believed-to-be-gang-related-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed in the\u00a0mass shooting at a New Jersey Chick-fil-A<\/a> was identified Monday as a 23-year-old New York City man.<\/p>\n<p>Malek Shepherd was pronounced dead at the scene and was the only fatality in Saturday\u2019s violence, which also let six people wounded.<\/p>\n<p>An unknown number of masked men stormed the Union Township franchise on busy Route 22 just before 9 p.m. and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39075829\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/041126chickfilashooting8CS.jpg\" alt=\"Chick-Fil-A Union NJ shooting\" class=\"wp-image-39075829\"  \/>The 23-year-old victim in the Union, NJ shooting was identified on Monday. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.79980469;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39075869\" width=\"472\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/chickfila-shooting-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chick-fil-A suspect NJ shooting\" class=\"wp-image-39075869\"  \/>An unidentified suspect is seen holding a gun and fleeing the Saturday night scene. Storyful<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Law-enforcement sources told The Post earlier Monday that they believe Malek was likely the target of the attack and that the other people wounded were caught in the crossfire.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The person killed in the\u00a0mass shooting at a New Jersey Chick-fil-A was identified Monday as a 23-year-old New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6596,57,1066,9,24,55,54,56,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-196085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-chick-fil-a","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196085","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=196085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}