{"id":199197,"date":"2026-04-16T12:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199197\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:04:36","slug":"long-island-teen-dead-2-injured-in-gang-related-shooting-in-eisenhower-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199197\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island teen dead, 2 injured, in gang-related shooting in Eisenhower Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teen was killed, and two people were wounded after gunfire erupted at a barbecue inside a popular Long Island park on Wednesday night \u2014 with two people now in custody, according to authorities and reports.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting broke out around 8:20 p.m. near Hempstead Turnpike and Merrick Avenue in Eisenhower Park, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder told reporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/eisenhower-park-east-meadow-long-island-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to CBS New York. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old boy and two other people were shot in the gang-related violence and taken to a local hospital, where the unidentified teen was pronounced dead, the outlet said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39102424\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/two-people-custody-teenager-killed-125752095_87bfdd.jpg\" alt=\"Police investigate a deadly shooting at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County on April 15, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-39102424\"  \/>Police investigate a deadly shooting at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County on April 15, 2026. WABC<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39102423\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/two-people-custody-teenager-killed-125752096.jpg\" alt=\"The shooting broke out around 8:20 p.m. near Hempstead Turnpike and Merrick Avenue in Eisenhower Park.\" class=\"wp-image-39102423\"  \/>The shooting broke out around 8:20 p.m. near Hempstead Turnpike and Merrick Avenue in Eisenhower Park. WABC<\/p>\n<p>An invitation for a barbecue at the park was sent out to purported gang members on social media.<\/p>\n<p>An argument then broke out at the event, sparking the gunfire, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Two people who were carrying weapons were taken into custody after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if they have yet been charged in connection with the incident, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The two other victims are in surgery as of late Wednesday, but are listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The Nassau County Police Department did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the deadly shooting remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen was killed, and two people were wounded after gunfire erupted at a barbecue inside a popular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1015,6809,776,57,774,9,11,10,3980],"class_list":{"0":"post-199197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-deaths","9":"tag-gangs","10":"tag-long-island","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-nassau-county","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-shootings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199197","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=199197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}