{"id":200439,"date":"2026-04-17T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200439\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:31:41","slug":"15-year-old-boy-fatally-shot-in-queens-playground-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200439\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old boy fatally shot in Queens playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fri, April 17, 2026 at 1:10 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d969e3e3bc8d7fd6b0153cb0964bba34.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>QUEENS &#8211; A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot Thursday evening in Queens, according to the NYPD&#8217;s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI).<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>Police said the incident occurred at approximately 6:15 p.m. in the vicinity of Merrick Boulevard and Baisley Boulevard, within the 113th Precinct. The victim sustained a gunshot wound to the torso.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers transported the victim to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was later pronounced deceased, per DCPI.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests made<\/p>\n<p>What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>As of this time, no arrests have been made and no suspect information has been released.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances and possible motive leading up to the shooting remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>Information from the NYPD&#8217;s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, April 17, 2026 at 1:10 AM UTC QUEENS &#8211; A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot Thursday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[52253,1874,28689,79567,9,24,63,103,74718,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-200439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-deputy-commissioner","tag-fatally-shot","tag-jamaica-hospital-medical-center","tag-merrick-boulevard","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-public-information","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200439","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=200439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}