{"id":287581,"date":"2026-07-05T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287581\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:31:18","slug":"goon-opens-fire-near-children-on-nyc-playground-as-2-people-wounded-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287581\/","title":{"rendered":"Goon opens fire near children on NYC playground as 2 people wounded: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gun-wielding goon opened fire on a playground Sunday afternoon and shot two people \u2014  including an apparent innocent bystander \u2014 feet from where kids were playing, according to cops and sources.<\/p>\n<p>The wild gunplay unfolded around 3 p.m. on Sunday inside of Raymond Bush Playground in Bed-Stuy, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39895470\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LCR17858.jpg\" alt=\"A white NYPD Police car with flashing red and blue lights, with yellow crime scene tape across the back of the vehicle, in front of a playground.\" class=\"wp-image-39895470\"  \/>The wild blasting went off around 3 p.m. on Sunday outside of Raymond Bush Playground in Bed-Stuy, sources said. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39895476\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LCR46782.jpg\" alt=\"A clear plastic cup on asphalt covers a bullet casing, typical of a crime scene.\" class=\"wp-image-39895476\"  \/>The shooter walked into a park and proceeded to shoot a 33-year-old man in the right wrist. A 64-year-old man, who appears to have been an unintended target, was also hit in the leg, sources said. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The shooter walked into a park and shot a 33-year-old man in the right wrist, sources said. A 64-year-old man, who appears to have been an unintended target, was also hit in the left leg, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The perp fled the scene in a black Jeep after the shooting, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old man took himself to Interfaith Hospital for treatment, while the 64-year-old man was rushed by EMS to Kings County Hospital. Both are in stable condition, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>There were no arrests as of Sunday evening, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gun-wielding goon opened fire on a playground Sunday afternoon and shot two people \u2014 including an apparent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4987,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,80288,3980,58],"class_list":["post-287581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bedford-stuyvesant","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-playgrounds","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287581","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=287581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}