{"id":327812,"date":"2026-08-23T13:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327812\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:35:32","slug":"brooklyn-restaurant-worker-killed-second-man-injured-in-midnight-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327812\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn restaurant worker killed, second man injured in midnight shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787492132_340_Screenshot-2026-05-28-at-1.10.29-PM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"NYPD officers at crime scene in Manhattan\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn restaurant worker killed, second man injured in midnight shooting 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 Police officers at a crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>An employee at a fast food restaurant in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/police-fire\/brooklyn-shooting-man-dead-08222026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> is dead, and a second person is recovering in a hospital, after a shooting erupted just after midnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred inside of Brownsville\u2019s America\u2019s Best Wings and Pizza, located at \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/842+Rockaway+Avenue?entry=gmail&amp;source=g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">842 Rockaway Avenue<\/a>. According to police sources, cops from the 73 Precinct received a 911 call reporting an assault inside of the eatery at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 23. When officers arrived they discovered a 44-year-old worker with a gunshot wound to the head and a 39-year-old man with a bullet wound to the right leg.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed both men to Brookdale Hospital, where the employee was pronounced dead. His identity is still pending family notification. The 39-year-old man is expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not immediately have a description of a suspect or a motive for the shooting. No arrests have been made.\n<\/p>\n<p>This comes after several days of gun violence in the borough. On Friday night, a 27-year-old man was shot to death in East New York in what police are investigating as a road rage incident. On Wednesday, a 17-year-old boy was killed in a shooting in an East New York restaurant in what cops are probing as a gang-related incident.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this latest shooting can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 Police officers at a crime scene. Photo by Dean Moses &#13; &#13; An employee at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,303,9,24,63,103,1096],"class_list":["post-327812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327812","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=327812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}