{"id":209588,"date":"2026-04-25T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209588\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:40:02","slug":"news-12-bronx-brooklyn-man-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-shooting-of-15-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209588\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Brooklyn Man Charged With Murder In Fatal Shooting Of 15 Year Old Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Brooklyn man has been arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of 15-year-old Jaden Pierre inside a Queens park.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded to a shooting near Merrick Boulevard and Baisley Boulevard on April 16 at around 6:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say Pierre was shot in the chest. He was transported to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Videos quickly circulated online of Pierre&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have now arrested 18-year-old Zahir Davis for the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch released a statement on X confirming the arrest. Davis had fled to Jamaica following the shooting and was arrested in New York City on Friday night. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He is facing murder charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn man has been arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of 15-year-old Jaden Pierre inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-209588","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\/209588","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=209588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}