{"id":299528,"date":"2026-07-18T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299528\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:47:45","slug":"detectives-investigating-death-of-nypd-cops-brother-shot-in-eye-in-harlem-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299528\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectives investigating death of NYPD cop’s brother shot in eye in Harlem apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 24-year-old brother of a rookie NYPD cop was shot in the eye and killed inside a Harlem apartment early Saturday, police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

Members of the NYPD Force Investigations Division, which handles all police-involved shootings, have been tasked with trying to determine if the new officer was involved \u2014 or if he pulled the trigger, a police source with knowledge of the case said.<\/p>\n

Cops were called to the building near the corner of Frederick Douglas Blvd. and Macombs Place at about 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Police investigate after a man was found with a gunshot wound to the eye inside an apartment on Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Macombs Place in Manhattan early Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The man died at the scene. His name was not immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t clear what sparked the shooting.<\/p>\n

An NYPD spokesman confirmed that the fatal shooting involved a cop\u2019s \u201cfamily member.\u201d<\/p>\n

NYPD detectives were investigating the possibility that the shooting was accidental, according to police sources.<\/p>\n

Crime scene detectives were seen removing paper bags full of items from the apartment throughout the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 24-year-old brother of a rookie NYPD cop was shot in the eye and killed inside a Harlem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-299528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299528","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=299528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}