{"id":327126,"date":"2026-08-22T01:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327126\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:36:57","slug":"gunman-shoots-labradoodle-as-owner-62-walks-dog-on-brooklyn-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327126\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman shoots Labradoodle as owner, 62, walks dog on Brooklyn street"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 7-year-old Labradoodle<\/a> named Honey was shot and wounded while on a walk with her owner in Brooklyn, police said Friday.<\/p>\n

Honey, hit in the shoulder, was taken to an area animal clinic where she was treated and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear if the gunman was aiming for the dog, her 62-year-old owner or someone else, police said.<\/p>\n

The gunman opened fire around 5:46 p.m. early Wednesday evening as the pup and her owner walked down 31st St. near Fifth Ave. in Greenwood Heights.<\/p>\n

A witness said he was walking his kids home from daycare when he heard \u201ca big bang.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a dog crying aggressively. I heard a woman scream,\u201d said the man, who asked to remain anonymous. \u201cIt was a really nice older lady who had just said hi to us a minute before it happened. It was a cute curly-haired dog.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was blood that looked like smushed berries by the planter. After the loud bang, there was a guy running toward us,\u201d the witness added. \u201cI thought it was strange, but I didn\u2019t know what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

An NYPD wanted poster (inset) is seen on 31st St. near 5th Ave. in Brooklyn (main photo) where a man shot a Labradoodle dog on Thursday. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The gunman ran off. No arrests were made.<\/p>\n

The dog was rushed to VERG Brooklyn, a 24-hour animal hospital 2 miles away, where the animal was treated and discharged, a staffer said.<\/p>\n

NYPD fliers posted near the scene advertised a $3,500 reward for any information that leads to the suspect\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 7-year-old Labradoodle named Honey was shot and wounded while on a walk with her owner in Brooklyn,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-327126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327126","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=327126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}