{"id":325634,"date":"2026-08-20T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325634\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:42:13","slug":"17-year-old-boy-dies-after-brooklyn-gunman-shoots-him-in-head-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325634\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old boy dies after Brooklyn gunman shoots him in head"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 17-year-old boy died Wednesday after he was shot in the head on a Brooklyn street, police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

Ahmir Jordan was struck on New Lots Ave near Miller Ave. in East New York around 8:23 p.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the teen to Brookdale Medical Center,<\/a> where he died.<\/p>\n

The gunman escaped, and there were no arrests.<\/p>\n

Jordan lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, about two miles from where he was killed, cops said. It wasn’t immediately clear why he was in East New York Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The shooting occurred just minutes before two women were stabbed about three blocks away in a separate incident at Van Siclen Ave. Stanley Ave. around 8:30 p.m., police said. The conditions of the two women were not immediately available.<\/p>\n

The two incidents do not appear to be related, an NYPD spokesman said.<\/p>\n

The shooting follows on the heels of multiple teens being killed or wounded by gunfire in the city this month. Most of these shootings happened in the Bronx, officials said.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 14, a 17-year-old boy was wounded after a gunman shot him in the chest \u2014 twice \u2014 across the street from a Bronx special needs school on Prospect Ave. near Grote St. in East Tremont, cops said.<\/p>\n

Two days earlier, Riley Billingslea, 15, was killed when a teenager shot him in the head<\/a> in the Castle Arms apartment building, on Claflin Ave. near W. 197th St. in Kingsbridge, around 5:20 p.m., cops said. A 13-year-old boy also grazed by the bullet in that shooting said he was saved by his cell phone<\/a> \u2014 the bullet ricocheting off the device in his hands after it exited his friend’s head.<\/p>\n

As of Wednesday, there were no arrests in that fatal shooting, cops said.<\/p>\n

Just one day earlier, on Aug. 11, a 17-year-old was shot in his head<\/a> on E. 228th St. near Bronxwood Ave. in Wakefield by a teen gunman spotted fleeing the scene on an e-bike just before 7 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed him to Jacobi Medical Center<\/a> in stable condition.<\/p>\n

And on Aug. 10, John Nunez, 16, was killed when a firearm he and a friend were playing with went off<\/a> inside a house on Prospect Ave. near E.169th St. around 5:10 a.m., cops said. He died at the scene. The victim’s 18-year-old friend was questioned by cops, but not immediately charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy died Wednesday after he was shot in the head on a Brooklyn street, police said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[122579,98,100,99,122578,8372,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-325634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-ahmir-jordan","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-street","tag-east-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325634","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=325634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}