{"id":205919,"date":"2026-04-22T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205919\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:35:13","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-teen-arrested-in-deadly-fort-greene-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205919\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Teen Arrested In Deadly Fort Greene Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 16-year-old boy is now under arrest in connection to a deadly shooting that shook a Fort Greene community.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the teen was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon and is facing charges of murder, criminal possession of a loaded firearm and criminal possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/16-year-old-arrested-for-fatal-shooting-of-artist-in-fort-greene\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the shooting<\/a> happened just before 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 12, inside the Whitman Houses.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers responding to a 911 call found 43-year-old Jamel Davis with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was taken to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A police source tells News 12 the shooting happened after a dispute between the teen and Davis, and that the two knew each other.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors say Davis was well known in the area \u2014 an artist who loved music and spent time with friends in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy is now under arrest in connection to a deadly shooting that shook a Fort Greene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-205919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205919","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=205919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}