{"id":209545,"date":"2026-04-25T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209545\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:40:01","slug":"teen-arrested-for-deadly-shooting-of-boy-in-queens-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209545\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested for deadly shooting of boy in Queens: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has been arrested in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/04\/21\/community-mourns-15-year-old-killed-in-queens-park-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deadly shooting of a 15-year-old boy<\/a> in Queens, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Zahir Davis, 18, was taken into custody by NYPD detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force after he landed in the U.S. Friday night, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>A teenager has been arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Queens, officials said<br \/>\n<br \/>Zahir Davis, 18, was taken into custody by NYPD detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force after he landed in the U.S. Friday night, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said<br \/>\n<br \/>Tisch said Davis fled to Jamaica after the shooting<br \/>\n<br \/>Police said 15-year-old Jaden Pierre was fatally shot on April 16 at Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans<\/p>\n<p>Tisch said Davis fled to Jamaica after the shooting. His attorney information wasn\u2019t immediately available Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 15-year-old Jaden Pierre was <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/queens\/news\/2026\/04\/22\/city-officials-hold-emergency-meeting-after-boy-was-killed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatally shot<\/a> on April 16 at Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans.<\/p>\n<p>A physical altercation involving a large group of other teens had escalated before he was beaten and shot, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Davis is believed to be part of a gang with ties to students at Benjamin Cardozo High School.<\/p>\n<p>At least six different gangs were in the park when Pierre was killed, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has been arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Queens, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10015,387,25,303,55625,9,24,12,63,308,122,124,123,380,27],"class_list":["post-209545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-crime","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-crime","tag-erin-pflaumer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209545","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=209545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}