{"id":327615,"date":"2026-08-23T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327615\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:58:10","slug":"cops-release-images-of-suspects-in-brooklyn-boys-fatal-shooting-at-teen-hangout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327615\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops release images of suspects in Brooklyn boy\u2019s fatal shooting at teen hangout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police released a photo and video on Saturday of two suspects wanted in connection with the killing of a 17-year-old boy<\/a> who was shot in the head inside or near a Brooklyn teen hangout.<\/p>\n

Ahmir Jordan was struck on New Lots Ave near Miller Ave. in East New York around 8:23 p.m. Wednesday, according to cops. Medics rushed him to Brookdale Medical Center<\/a>, where he died.<\/p>\n

The gunman escaped. There have been no arrests.<\/p>\n

In surveillance video provided by police, two young men wearing hoodies, with their hoods up, and surgical-style face masks, are seen quickly ambling down the sidewalk. One appears to have white stripes down the sides of his pant legs.<\/p>\n

Jordan lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant<\/a>, about 2 miles from where he was killed, cops said. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear why he was in East New York Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

NYPD detectives are investigating the possibility his death was linked to ongoing gang tensions in the area, a police source with knowledge of the case said.<\/p>\n

Cops responding to the area after the shooting found a window shattered by gunfire and a pool of blood inside Hakim\u2019s, a nearby seasonal restaurant that neighbors say has become a teen hangout.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if Jordan was inside the eatery when he was shot or ran into the place after being struck by gunfire.<\/p>\n

\"AhmirAhmir Jordan, 17, was fatally shot in the head either outside or inside Hakim\u2019s Restaurant on New Lots Ave. in East New York, Brooklyn on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. A pool of his blood was found inside the eatery. (Julian Roberts-Grmela \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Hakim\u2019s is only open in the summer, one longtime resident, who would only identify himself as Terrance, told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

In past years, the restaurant drew mostly an adult crowd, but now it\u2019s \u201ckids, teenagers,\u201d Terrance, 65, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day you pass, it\u2019s teenagers out front, inside, smoking and drinking,\u201d he said. \u201cNot even eating food. Just conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Terrance said he didn\u2019t recognize many of the youths that flock to the eatery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not from around here,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re not like kids that live around here. Once you see too many kids around, you know it\u2019s a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The East New York resident said Jordan\u2019s death hit him hard because his own 17-year-old nephew was fatally shot several years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cSame way \u2014 shot in the head,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to get a grip on this s\u2014.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s death follows on the heels of multiple teens being killed or wounded by gunfire in the city this month, mostly 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<\/a> when a teenager shot him in the head 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\u2019s head.<\/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. Medics rushed the victim to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.<\/p>\n

And on Aug. 10, John Nunez, 16, was killed<\/a> when a firearm he and a friend were playing with went off inside a house on Prospect Ave. near E.169th St. around 5:10 a.m., cops said. He died at the scene. Cops questioned the victim\u2019s 18-year-old friend, but he was not immediately charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police released a photo and video on Saturday of two suspects wanted in connection with the killing of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,8372,786,26485,787,9,24,63,103,123217,33194],"class_list":["post-327615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-east-new-york","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-gang-violence","tag-gun-violence","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-teen-hangout","tag-youth-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327615","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=327615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}