{"id":200223,"date":"2026-04-17T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200223\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:12:08","slug":"15-year-old-boy-shot-dead-in-queens-park-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200223\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old boy shot dead in Queens park. Here&#8217;s what we know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police manhunt is underway following the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy in Queens on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said the victim suffered a gunshot wound to the chest just after 6:15 p.m. inside of a park at Merrick and Baisley and boulevards in the St. Albans section.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition, but later died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart is heavy tonight after we lost a 15-year-old to a senseless act of gun violence. I&#8217;m praying for his family, loved ones, and community. I will continue to work tirelessly every day to end gun violence in New York,&#8221; state Attorney General Letitia James wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Please stay with CBS News New York for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police manhunt is underway following the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy in Queens on Thursday evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[787,9,11,10,103,122,1236],"class_list":{"0":"post-200223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-gun-violence","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-nypd","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-st-albans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200223","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=200223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}