{"id":327996,"date":"2026-08-23T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327996\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:06:08","slug":"brooklyn-restaurant-shooting-leaves-1-employee-dead-another-injured-police-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327996\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn restaurant shooting leaves 1 employee dead, another injured, police sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shooting at a Brooklyn restaurant early Sunday morning left one employee dead and another injured, police sources say.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say two men were shot inside American Best Wings and Pizza on Rockaway Avenue in Brownsville just after 12 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if the gunman was outside or inside the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, police say they found a 44-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head and a 39-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the leg.<\/p>\n<p>Both were taken to a local hospital, where the 44-year-old man was pronounced dead. We&#8217;re told the 39-year-old man is in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lilley-am-vo-brownsvill-wcbsitph-hi-res-still.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"NYPD officers outside restaurant \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A shooting at a Brooklyn restaurant left one employee dead and another injured on Aug. 23, 2026, police sources say.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Police have not yet identified the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant where the shooting happened is a late-night spot that stays open until 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they are looking for a man in connection to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what led up to the shooting at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooting at a Brooklyn restaurant early Sunday morning left one employee dead and another injured, police sources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,6616,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-327996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brownsville","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327996","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=327996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}