{"id":322675,"date":"2026-08-16T19:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322675\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T19:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:24:52","slug":"innocent-nyc-woman-bleeds-out-after-being-shot-by-stray-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322675\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocent NYC woman bleeds out after being shot by stray bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An innocent 33-year-old woman bled to death in a Brooklyn bar bathroom after she ran for help when a stray bullet hit her during a Sunday morning street brawl, police and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly gunfire erupted when a fight broke out between a group of about 100 people outside the Ooh La La Lounge near Bergen Street and Howard Avenue around 2:23 a.m. in Crown Heights, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>An errant bullet struck Sofronie Hartzog\u00a0 in the back and a 34-year-old man in the gut \u2014 both unintended targets, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40366866\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/members-nypd-crime-scene-unit-137595807.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD crime scene unit at the scene of a fatal shooting at Bergen Street and Howard Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.\" class=\"wp-image-40366866\"  \/>Members of the NYPD crime scene unit work the scene of a shooting on Sunday, August 16, 2026, in Brooklyn, New York. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Hartzog ran into the bar, where she collapsed in a restroom.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed her to One Brooklyn Health-One Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, but she could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>The other victim was left in stable condition at NYC Health and Hospitals\/Kings County Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40366870\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/23-shooting-took-place-several-137589489.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers and a woman wearing a bulletproof vest examine a car at a crime scene.\" class=\"wp-image-40366870\"  \/>A 35-year-old woman was fatally shot and a 34-year-old man was injured in the incident at Bergen Street and Howard Avenue. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what the dispute was over.<\/p>\n<p>Two men matching a description of\u00a0 suspects in the shooting were taken into custody but were released after cops realized they were not involved, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Cops are still hunting for the criminals who caused the carnage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An innocent 33-year-old woman bled to death in a Brooklyn bar bathroom after she ran for help when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,57,9,24,63,103,3980,58],"class_list":["post-322675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322675","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=322675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}