{"id":319819,"date":"2026-08-12T21:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319819\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:24:55","slug":"gunman-who-shot-and-wounded-8-at-coney-island-bbq-also-killed-boys-puppy-d-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319819\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman who shot and wounded 8 at Coney Island BBQ also killed boy’s puppy: D.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

The gunman accused of spraying a Brooklyn Fourth of July cookout with gunfire isn\u2019t just an alleged mass shooter<\/a> \u2014 he\u2019s also a puppy killer, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n

Robert Smith, 44, fired a fatal bullet into the head of a 6-year-old boy\u2019s beloved 10-week-old pup, Sky, when he opened fire on a crowd<\/a> of about 50 people celebrating the Fourth at a Coney Island family barbecue, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez revealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe scene after a masked gunman shot eight people at a Fourth of July cookout on W. 30th St. in Coney Island, Brooklyn, on Saturday, July 4.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors also announced the arrest of a second suspect, Kevin Blunt, 44, who they say helped Smith clear a jam in his gun before Smith sprayed 15 bullets into the crowd, wounding four adults and four children in a courtyard on W. 30th St. near Surf Ave.<\/p>\n

Both men have been charged with attempted murder and other offenses in an 88-count indictment. Prosecutors put out another new detail at the alleged dog slayer\u2019s Brooklyn Supreme Court arraignment Wednesday \u2014 the TEC-9 he wielded was also used for a 2023 homicide in Coney Island.<\/p>\n

Smith was arrested first, on July 8, while police caught up with Blunt on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n

The victims included the 6-year-old boy, who was shot in the stomach, a 7-year-old boy shot in both legs, another boy, 12, struck in the leg, and a fourth boy, 14, hit in the thigh, as well as a woman, 21, shot in the chest, a second woman, 25, struck in the leg, a man, 33, shot in the chest, and another man, 37, hit in the shoulder.<\/p>\n

\"BloodBlood is pictured after a masked gunman shot eight people at a Fourth of July cookout on W. 30th St. in Coney Island, Brooklyn, on Saturday, July 4, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

All survived their wounds. The 21-year-old woman was initially hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n

The victims are all part of the same extended family except for one family friend, who cops believe was the intended target, police sources said.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun ordered that Smith remain held without bail. Blunt is also being held without bail. Both have pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese defendants are allegedly responsible for unleashing a barrage of gunfire into a courtyard packed with families celebrating the Fourth of July, striking eight people \u2014 including four children \u2014 and killing a 6-year-old boy\u2019s puppy,\u201d Gonzalez said Wednesday. \u201cThe fact that no person was killed is extraordinary, but it does not diminish the alleged recklessness and brutality of this attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 6-year-old boy had already seen more than his share of death and trauma before the shooting \u2014 his father was shot to death before he was born and his teenage aunt was gunned down when he was a toddler, his mother told the Daily News last month.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c(My son) said to me, \u2018Mommy, they shot me. That person tried to kill me,\u2019\u2019 the victim\u2019s mother, Ineisha Greene, told The News shortly after the shooting. \u201cMy son don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on, but he knows what happened to him. He\u2019s very smart. He knows exactly what happened to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gunman accused of spraying a Brooklyn Fourth of July cookout with gunfire isn\u2019t just an alleged mass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1271,98,100,99,119,40550,787,120568,9,24,63,120569,1096],"class_list":["post-319819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-attempted-murder","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-coney-island","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-gun-violence","tag-holiday-cookout","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-puppy-killer","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319819","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=319819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}