{"id":291550,"date":"2026-07-09T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291550\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:15:07","slug":"17-year-old-arrested-in-murder-of-teen-boy-in-brooklyn-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291550\/","title":{"rendered":"17-Year-Old Arrested in Murder of Teen Boy in Brooklyn Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Park, MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/minnesotanow.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MinnesotaNow<\/a>)-\u00a0An arrest has been made in the <a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/tags\/twin cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twin Cities<\/a> in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old boy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/fatal-aircraft-crash-winona-mn-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NTSB Release Preliminary Report on Deadly Aircraft Crash at Winona Airport<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/fatal-aircraft-crash-winona-mn-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The teen died following a <a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/tags\/shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting<\/a> around 10:45 Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn Park Police Department announced the arrest in a news release published on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/attachment-krocam-social-square.jpg\" alt=\"KROC-AM logo\"\/>17-Year-Old Arrested for Murder of Teen Boy in Brooklyn Park<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s deadly shooting occurred at Hartkopf Park, located at 7300 Florida Ave N.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers found the young victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was given life-saving aid but died from his injuries at the scene, police say. His name has not been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Murder Weapon Recovered<\/p>\n<p>Officers began investigating the shooting. The investigation led to the arrest of a 17-year-old boy and the recovery of the murder weapon, the news release says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say the suspected shooter was booked into the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of <a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/tags\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">second-degree murder<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The homicide investigation remains ongoing, the news release says.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest cities in Minnesota 150 years ago<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stacker.com\/minnesota\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Stacker<\/a> compiled a list of the biggest cities in Minnesota 150 years ago using data transcribed from the 1870 U.S. Census.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/stacker.com\/stories\/minnesota\/biggest-cities-minnesota-150-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stacker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best counties to live in Minnesota<a href=\"https:\/\/stacker.com\/minnesota\/best-counties-live-minnesota\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Stacker<\/a> compiled a list of the best counties to live in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Stacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Park, MN (MinnesotaNow)-\u00a0An arrest has been made in the Twin Cities in connection with the murder of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,10975],"class_list":["post-291550","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","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291550","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=291550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}