{"id":291012,"date":"2026-07-09T01:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291012\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:44:58","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-flatbush-man-charged-with-murder-for-allegedly-shooting-his-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291012\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Flatbush Man Charged With Murder For Allegedly Shooting His Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Flatbush man is facing a murder charge for allegedly shooting his girlfriend, according to police and sources close to the victim.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tahj Nelson, 23, was taken into custody Monday. He is accused of shooting Tatiana Pettus, 24, inside their Flatbush apartment building on the night of June 30.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says officers responded to 2817 Foster Ave. just before 11:30 p.m., where they found Pettus with a gunshot wound to her neck. Paramedics rushed her to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Kings County, where she died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Nelson is also charged with criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to public court records, he was arraigned and pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He is due back in court Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Flatbush man is facing a murder charge for allegedly shooting his girlfriend, according to police and sources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-291012","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\/291012","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=291012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}