{"id":332806,"date":"2026-08-29T19:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332806\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:30:36","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-arrested-in-2-nyc-homicides-after-weeklong-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332806\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Arrested In 2 Nyc Homicides After Weeklong Manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing two Brooklyn men during separate incidents in Brooklyn and the Bronx, according to an NYPD X post.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jesus Acosta, 31, was taken into custody on Saturday morning, following a weeklong manhunt.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Acosta, of the Bronx, is now charged in the deaths of 44-year-old M.D. Yousef and 33-year-old Tayvon Shuler. Both men were unsuspecting victims, killed just days apart.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the first shooting happened inside <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/brooklyn-community-mourns-hearing-news-of-second-fatal-shooting-with-same-gunman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Best Wings and Pizza<\/a> on Rockaway Parkway on Aug. 22. Acosta allegedly opened fire just after midnight, killing Yousef and wounding a second man &#8211; both employees.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Just three days later, Acosta allegedly barged into a Bronx deli and shot and killed Shuler before robbing the business.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2026\/08\/27\/two-men-identified-in-separate-deadly-shootings-as-police-continue-search-for-suspect\/1dNS3qBKl4iw2ZgSi2YCqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported that state records showed <\/a>Acosta served an 11-year prison sentence for attempted murder and was released on parole around four months ago.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police first identified Acosta as the alleged gunman on Tuesday. The list of charges he now faces was not available as of Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The United Bodegas of America offered on Wednesday a $10,000 reward for information leading to Acosta&#8217;s arrest. The following day, the FBI offered a $25,000 reward.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">UBA spoke out about the tragic incidents, demanding justice and advocating for additional safety measures for deli employees.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cGive us protection, panic buttons and the legal ability to defend ourselves and impose a mandatory three- to five-year prison sentence on anyone convicted of carrying an illegal gun. We cannot wait for another deadly shooter who does not care about human life,\u201d said UBA President Radahmes Rodriguez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing two Brooklyn men during separate incidents in Brooklyn and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-332806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332806","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=332806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}