{"id":251262,"date":"2026-06-01T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251262\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:48:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-police-identify-man-wanted-for-shooting-14-year-old-boy-in-broad-daylight-in-allerton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251262\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Police Identify Man Wanted For Shooting 14 Year Old Boy In Broad Daylight In Allerton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have identified the man they say is on the run after shooting a 14-year-old boy in Allerton.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Roderick Allen, 55, allegedly opened fire on the teen around 3:50 p.m. Friday near Cruger and Burke avenues, just steps from a strip of businesses.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says the 14-year-old was struck in the left leg and grazed by a bullet in the right leg.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics took the teen to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Jacobi. Police say he is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Allen allegedly took off running after the shooting, traveling southbound on Cruger Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released an image and a video of Allen, who they say was last seen wearing black shorts, a white tank top, black sneakers and a black hat.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have identified the man they say is on the run after shooting a 14-year-old boy in Allerton.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-251262","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\/251262","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=251262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}