{"id":248169,"date":"2026-05-29T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248169\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:02:46","slug":"police-search-for-suspects-after-reckless-shooting-hits-b103-bus-in-east-new-york-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248169\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for suspects after reckless shooting hits B103 bus in East New York \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC_9655.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"DSC_9655\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An MTA B103 bus sits damaged after a bullet struck the vehicle during a shooting near Flatlands Avenue and Williams Avenue in East New York.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A manhunt is underway for two groups of suspects involved in a reckless shooting that damaged an MTA bus in East New York.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to reports of shots fired just before 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon at the corner of Flatlands Avenue and Williams Avenue, according to police.\n<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD spokesperson said four suspects were involved in a dispute at the location when one individual fired a gun. The bullet struck a B103 bus but no injuries were reported. A firearm was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-243646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC_9643-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\"  \/>Officers from the 75th Precinct respond to the corner of Flatlands Avenue and Williams Avenue following reports of gunfire that damaged a city bus.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting comes as gun violence has increased in the 75th Precinct this year. According to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NYPD crime statistics<\/a> available through May 24, shootings in the precinct are up 25% year to date, with 20 incidents reported so far in 2026, compared with 16 during the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MTA B103 bus sits damaged after a bullet struck the vehicle during a shooting near Flatlands Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,13497,303,8372,9,24,12,370,63,103,646,1096],"class_list":["post-248169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-bus","tag-crime","tag-east-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-and-fire","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248169","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=248169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}