{"id":212242,"date":"2026-04-28T04:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212242\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:10:45","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-police-investigate-carjacking-incident-near-yonkers-gas-station-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212242\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Police Investigate Carjacking Incident Near Yonkers Gas Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A teenage boy is accused of carjacking an off-duty New York state trooper in Yonkers, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It happened on Sunday a little before 1 p.m. at the gas station at Midland and Kimball avenues. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the trooper was just finishing up getting gas when the 17-year-old suspect approached her, brandished a knife and entered the driver\u2019s seat of her vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;The trooper fired one shot from her off-duty firearm, striking the suspect in the left arm. The round continued into his torso. The suspect accelerated the vehicle toward the rear of the gas station, driving through a shed and fence at the end of the property before coming to rest in the parking lot of the adjacent apartment building,&#8221; said part of a press release from Yonkers police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The suspect then ran off toward Midland Avenue. Police quickly caught him. A knife was recovered, according to officers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The suspect was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for his wounds and remains in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He faces several charges, including robbery, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The trooper was left with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She is a 12-year veteran of the agency, assigned to New York City, according to officials with the New York State Police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy is accused of carjacking an off-duty New York state trooper in Yonkers, according to police.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-212242","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\/212242","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=212242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}