{"id":205343,"date":"2026-04-21T22:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205343\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:37:42","slug":"police-identify-shooter-in-deadly-nyc-park-shooting-that-killed-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205343\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Identify Shooter In Deadly NYC Park Shooting That Killed Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEENS, NY \u2014 The NYPD have identified the shooter accused of fatally shooting a 15-year-old boy inside a Queens park last week. <\/p>\n<p>The shooter has been identified as Zahir Davis, 18, who is reportedly a BG4 gang member, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, 15-year-old Jaden Pierre had organized a water gun fight at Roy Wilkins Park before the shooting. <\/p>\n<p>Pierre and the shooter had been engaged in an ongoing feud that was gang-related, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Davis showed up to the park and pistol-whipped Pierre before a shot was fired into the boy&#8217;s chest. <\/p>\n<p>Pierre was taken to Jamaica Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made yet. An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 The NYPD have identified the shooter accused of fatally shooting a 15-year-old boy inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-205343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205343","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=205343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}