{"id":323020,"date":"2026-08-17T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323020\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:02:47","slug":"1-dead-1-injured-after-shooting-in-crown-heights-brooklyn-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323020\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 1 injured after shooting in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person is dead, and another is injured as police continue to look for the suspect after a shooting in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to reports of a person shot just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday near Bergen Street and Howard Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>They found a 33-year-old woman shot in the back and a 34-year-old man shot in the abdomen. The woman was pronounced dead. The man is currently stable in the hospital, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the woman as Sofronie Hartzog.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the incident stemmed from a fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors say they saw a large group of people gathered near the intersection when someone started firing towards the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Police recovered multiple shell casings from the scene while searching for witnesses and surveillance video on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said it&#8217;s unclear who the suspect was targeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via their website<\/a>\u00a0or via DM on X,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls are kept confidential. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is dead, and another is injured as police continue to look for the suspect after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,102,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-323020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crown-heights","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323020","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=323020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}