{"id":200280,"date":"2026-04-17T02:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200280\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:23:39","slug":"15-year-old-shot-and-killed-in-queens-park-police-say-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200280\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old shot and killed in Queens park, police say \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed at a park in Queens as the sun went down on an unseasonably warm spring day, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was shot just after 6 p.m. at Roy Wilkins Park near the intersection of Baisley Boulevard and Merrick Boulevard in the St. Albans neighborhood, according to police. There was a fight on a basketball court that turned physical, and then the shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p>He was shot in the chest and rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where he died from his injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Attorney General Letitia James shared her condolences on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NewYorkStateAG\/status\/2044924565113954729\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media platform X<\/a> after the shooting, saying &#8220;My heart is heavy tonight after we lost a 15-year-old to a senseless act of gun violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and a police investigation is ongoing. Police said they did not yet have enough information regarding a description for them to search for a possible suspect or suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed at a park in Queens as the sun went down on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[787,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-200280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-gun-violence","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-queens","13":"tag-queens-headlines","14":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200280","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=200280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}