{"id":327630,"date":"2026-08-23T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327630\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:32:09","slug":"police-search-for-gunman-after-brooklyn-dog-shot-by-stray-bullet-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327630\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for gunman after Brooklyn dog shot by stray bullet \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police continued searching Saturday for the person they say shot a dog in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The animal was struck by a stray bullet while out on a walk with her owner.<\/p>\n

Investigators said the 7-year-old dog, “Honey,” was shot in the leg Wednesday evening just before 6 p.m. near The Green-Wood Cemetery and 5th Ave.<\/p>\n

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A blurred image of a bullet hole after Honey the dog was shot Wednesday evening. The gunman may have been targeting another person. (Image: NBC New York via Rose Levine)<\/p>\n

Honey was walking along 31st St. when a man pulled out a gun and started firing at another person, police said. One of the bullets \u2014 a .22-caliber round \u2014 struck Honey in the upper leg, according to her owner.<\/p>\n

Photos shared with NBC New York by Honey\u2019s owner showed a bullet hole and blood smear’s on her hair.<\/p>\n

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(Image: NBC New York via Rose Levine)<\/p>\n

Police are looking for a man now displayed in a “wanted” poster. Surveillance video shows the suspected gunman walking through a crosswalk.<\/p>\n

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The NYPD is searching for this man in the shooting of Honey the dog Wednesday evening in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. (Image: NBC New York via NYPD)<\/p>\n

After Honey was shot, the owner rushed her to the vet, where the bullet was removed and the wound was stitched. Honey is expected to recover.<\/p>\n

On Saturday evening, police officers were seen along 5th Ave. near a bullet covered by a cup. It was unclear whether that bullet was connected to Wednesday\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC New York. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC New York journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police continued searching Saturday for the person they say shot a dog in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The animal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,103,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-327630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327630","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=327630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}