{"id":330326,"date":"2026-08-26T17:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330326\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:40:52","slug":"manhunt-continues-across-nyc-for-suspect-wanted-for-2-deadly-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330326\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt continues across NYC for suspect wanted for 2 deadly shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are still looking for an armed and dangerous man who they say is responsible for two deadly shootings across New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Acosta, 31, is the suspect in a shooting that happened at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/bronx-deli-customer-shot-armed-robbery-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bronx deli<\/a> Tuesday morning and a shooting at a Brooklyn restaurant Sunday night, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video shows Acosta allegedly entering 149 Grill and Deli before shooting and killing a 33-year-old man inside and stealing his backpack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Store employees were seen ducking for cover as bullets hit the walls just inches away from where they stood. The suspect then raided the deli&#8217;s register before running away.<\/p>\n<p>Family members identified the 33-year-old as Tavon Shuler, who friends knew fondly as &#8220;Pluccy.&#8221; A memorial is growing outside the bodega in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a good kid. He gave his shirt off his back,&#8221; said his father, Douglas Shuler.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives say Acosta is also wanted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/brooklyn-restaurant-shooting-employee-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting at an American Best Wings and Pizza<\/a> in Brownsville that killed a 44-year-old man and injured another.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How someone could just walk into a business and shoot somebody without knowing that person, the nonsense needs to stop,&#8221; a nearby resident said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said Acosta has been out on parole since April, serving more than 10 years behind bars for assault and criminal possession of a weapon.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via the Crime Stoppers website<\/a>\u00a0or via DM on X,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls are kept confidential. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are still looking for an armed and dangerous man who they say is responsible for two deadly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,98,6616,9,24,63,103,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-330326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-brownsville","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330326","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=330326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}