{"id":323798,"date":"2026-08-18T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323798\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T05:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:52:13","slug":"woman-grazed-by-bullet-on-nyc-street-third-innocent-bystander-shot-in-brooklyn-within-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323798\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman grazed by bullet on NYC street \u2014 third innocent bystander shot in Brooklyn within 48 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman was grazed by a bullet on a Brooklyn street Monday \u2014 marking at least the third innocent bystander to be shot in the borough in less than 48 hours. <\/p>\n

The 52-year-old woman was walking near the Glenwood Houses NYCHA complex in Flatlands when she was grazed by a bullet in the left arm around 1:10 p.m., police said. <\/p>\n

Three male suspects fled the scene on scooters after the gunfire, according to sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"APolice responded to a report of gunfire on Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

First responders arrived at the scene on Ralph Avenue and transported the victim to Brookdale Medical Center in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police confirmed to The Post that she was an innocent bystander.<\/p>\n

Year-to-date NYPD data shows shooting incidents in the 63rd precinct \u2014 which contains the crime scene \u2014 have plunged 60% compared to the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n

However, Monday\u2019s shooting follows the tragic death of <\/a>Sofronie Hartzog<\/a>, a mother of five who bled out in a Crown Heights bar bathroom after she was hit by a stray bullet during a street brawl over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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. Sunday, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n

An errant bullet struck Hartzog in the back and a 34-year-old man in the gut \u2014 both unintended targets, police said.<\/p>\n

\"AA woman was grazed by a bullet in Flatlands on Monday \u2014 marking the third innocent bystander shot in Brooklyn within 48 hours. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Hartzog ran into the bar, where she collapsed in a restroom.<\/p>\n

First responders rushed her to Brookdale Medical Center, but she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey killed her, that\u2019s what happened,\u201d her grieving aunt, Melinda Hartzog, told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was the best person in the world,\u201d she said, adding that her niece left behind five children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neighbor Jennifer Ortiz described the slain victim as a doting mom, always putting her well-behaved kids in nice outfits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was grazed by a bullet on a Brooklyn street Monday \u2014 marking at least the third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,303,4542,57,9,24,63,305,3980,58],"class_list":["post-323798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-guns","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nycha","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323798","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=323798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}