{"id":302535,"date":"2026-07-22T03:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302535\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:13:54","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-rideshare-driver-shot-in-the-face-during-violent-robbery-in-prospect-lefferts-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302535\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Rideshare Driver Shot In The Face During Violent Robbery In Prospect Lefferts Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A rideshare driver was shot in the face during a violent robbery in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The gunman entered the 21-year-old man&#8217;s TLC cab in front of 525 Parkside Ave. just after 4 a.m. on July 11.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, the attacker threatened the driver before demanding he hand over money and his car keys.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When the 21-year-old exited the car, the man pulled a gun on him and fired, striking him in the face.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics rushed the driver to NYC Health and Hospitals\/ Kings County. He is expected to recover, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says the gunman got away with an unknown amount of money and took off running westbound on Parkside Avenue toward Flatbush Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police provided video footage and images of the man they are looking for. They say he was last seen wearing blue shorts, a black sweatshirt, a black surgical mask, black shoes and carrying a black bookbag.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rideshare driver was shot in the face during a violent robbery in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, police say.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-302535","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\/302535","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=302535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}