{"id":332812,"date":"2026-08-29T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332812\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:48:08","slug":"news-12-westchester-man-arrested-in-2-nyc-homicides-after-weeklong-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332812\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Man Arrested In 2 Nyc Homicides After Weeklong Manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Jesus Acosta, 31, was taken into custody on Saturday morning, following a weeklong manhunt.<\/p>\n

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

Police say the first shooting happened inside 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 – both employees.<\/p>\n

Just three days later, Acosta allegedly barged into a Bronx deli and shot and killed Shuler before robbing the business.<\/p>\n

News 12 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

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

The United Bodegas of America offered on Wednesday a $10,000 reward for information leading to Acosta’s arrest. The following day, the FBI offered a $25,000 reward.<\/p>\n

UBA spoke out about the tragic incidents, demanding justice and advocating for additional safety measures for deli employees.<\/p>\n

\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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-332812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/332812","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=332812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}