{"id":299450,"date":"2026-07-18T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299450\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:28:16","slug":"nypd-cops-relative-24-fatally-shot-in-the-eye-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299450\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD cop&#8217;s relative, 24, fatally shot in the eye in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer\u2019s family member was fatally shot in the eye in the Bronx early Saturday morning, an NYPD spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old man was found at Frederick Douglas Boulevard and Macombs Place with a gunshot wound to the right eye around 1:30 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40022300\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/body-24-year-old-man-134769917.jpg\" alt=\"Two men in uniform removing a body in a black bag on a stretcher from an apartment building.\" class=\"wp-image-40022300\"  \/>The body of a 24-year-old man who was fatally shot inside of an apartment building is removed from the scene in the area of Macombs Place and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40022283\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-woman-dressed-colorful-dress-134760928.jpg\" alt=\"Police gather at the scene of a fatal shooting with an ambulance in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-40022283\"  \/>Police at the scene where the 24-year-old was fatally shot inside of 2816 Frederick Douglass Boulevard in New York, NY around 1:45 a.m. on July 18, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>His identity wasn\u2019t immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the relationship between the male police officer and the victim wasn\u2019t clear, police said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer\u2019s family member was fatally shot in the eye in the Bronx early Saturday morning, an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57,9,24,63,103,104,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-299450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299450","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=299450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}