{"id":264979,"date":"2026-06-12T22:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264979\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:12:45","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-shot-in-the-face-in-east-flatbush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264979\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Shot In The Face In East Flatbush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A person of interest is in custody after a 52-year-old man was fatally shot in the face in East Flatbush, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Emergency responders were called to 261 Lenox Road just before 3:30 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say paramedics rushed the 52-year-old to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Kings County, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Citizen app footage from the scene shows police cruisers and ambulances rushing to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The violence erupted across the street from Rep. Yvette D. Clarke&#8217;s office. News 12 reached out to her office for comment and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person of interest is in custody after a 52-year-old man was fatally shot in the face in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-264979","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\/264979","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=264979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}