{"id":324572,"date":"2026-08-19T01:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324572\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T01:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:53:06","slug":"brooklyn-shooting-person-of-interest-identified-in-crown-heights-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324572\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn shooting person of interest identified in Crown Heights \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD has identified a person of interest in the shooting that killed a 33-year-old woman, wounded a man, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/brooklyn\/brooklyn-shooting-video-crown-heights-woman-killed\/6537464\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> sent people running from a busy Brooklyn block this week,<\/a> authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are looking into whether the woman, identified as Sofronie Hartzog, of Brooklyn, and the unidentified man may have been unintended targets. The man is expected to be OK.<\/p>\n<p>Jarring surveillance footage shows the block, Bergen Street and Howard Avenue in Crown Heights, flooded with people around 2 a.m. Sunday. Suddenly, people start to run from the intersection, some of them screaming.<\/p>\n<p>Shots are heard. More screaming.<\/p>\n<p>In the chaos, police say the woman and a 34-year-old man were shot &#8212; him in the stomach, her in the back. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the victims were part of a larger group when an argument broke out. The gunfire came right after. A witness said there had been a block party, and at least 100 people were in the area at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD previously said it was looking for two suspects in the case. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD has identified a person of interest in the shooting that killed a 33-year-old woman, wounded a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,3980],"class_list":["post-324572","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","tag-shootings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324572","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=324572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}