{"id":209398,"date":"2026-04-25T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:51:46","slug":"brooklyn-teen-16-shot-and-killed-on-livonia-avenue-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209398\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn teen, 16, shot and killed on Livonia Avenue, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nypd-police-van.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD officers and an NYPD van\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">NYPD officers (File Photo) <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; A 16-year-old boy is dead after being shot inside a Brooklyn building Friday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officers responded to a 911 call around 4:16 p.m. on April 24 reporting a person shot inside 909 Livonia Avenue, within the 75th Precinct.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">When police arrived, they found a 16-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the torso and another to the groin area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The victim was transported by EMS to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Medical Center in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">He was later pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p> Victim identified <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police identified the victim as Marquise Byfield, a 16-year-old from Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">No arrests have been made in the case.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police have not released information about a possible suspect or what may have led to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing as detectives work to determine the circumstances surrounding the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information provided by the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/brooklyn\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NYPD officers (File Photo) NEW YORK &#8211; A 16-year-old boy is dead after being shot inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,850,9,24,12,56,63,618],"class_list":["post-209398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209398","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=209398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}