{"id":243723,"date":"2026-05-26T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243723\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:12:40","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-killed-inside-flatlands-laundromat-identified-as-neighborhood-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243723\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Killed Inside Flatlands Laundromat Identified As Neighborhood Resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A routine trip to the laundromat turned deadly <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2026\/05\/25\/1-man-dead-another-injured-in-flatlands-shooting\/7InBZ8kGaJokxrbruoKD5N\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Flatlands on Memorial Day morning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police say 41-year-old Kevon Lee was shot multiple times inside the Xpress Laundromat on Utica Avenue around 8 a.m. Monday. Lee, who lived just a few minutes away in the neighborhood, later died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A 68-year-old man was also grazed in the foot and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p>By Tuesday morning, the 24-hour laundromat was open for business. Video from the scene showed evidence markers on the floor underneath laundry carts with clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who were inside say the gunfire sent people scrambling for cover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was washing my clothes and then the shots start coming,\u201d customer Philip Denaud told News 12. \u201cIt was about 5 to 6 shots. Then we hit the floor and went into the bathroom and locked the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The manager of the laundromat says surveillance video appears to show the gunman running inside, opening fire and leaving quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came in, he shot and left the place in less than 10 seconds,\u201d manager Sufyan Alahmadi said.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made. Police have not said what may have led up to the shooting or whether Lee knew the gunman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A routine trip to the laundromat turned deadly in Flatlands on Memorial Day morning. Police say 41-year-old Kevon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-243723","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\/243723","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=243723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}