{"id":332850,"date":"2026-08-29T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332850\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:52:10","slug":"nypd-man-accused-in-fatal-nyc-shootings-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332850\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD: Man accused in fatal NYC shootings arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD announced on Saturday it has arrested a man wanted in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/bronx\/news\/2026\/08\/25\/nypd-identifies-suspect-linked-to-deadly-bronx--brooklyn-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two fatal shootings in the Bronx and Brooklyn<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 31-year-old Jesus Acosta allegedly shot and killed 44-year-old MD Yousof early Sunday while he was working at American Best Wings and Pizza in Brownsville.<\/p>\n<p>Acosta is also accused of stealing the entire week of sales money from the restaurant during the shooting, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Police said he also allegedly killed a customer at a Bronx bodega before emptying their cash register as well.<\/p>\n<p>The United Bodegas of America thanked the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/brooklyn\/news\/2026\/08\/28\/fbi-offers--25-000-reward-for-suspect-linked-to-deadly-bronx--brooklyn-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for getting involved<\/a>, but are pushing lawmakers to install panic buttons inside bodegas to keep their workers safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD announced on Saturday it has arrested a man wanted in connection with two fatal shootings in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10015,387,25,98,100,99,303,9,24,12,63,308,380,27],"class_list":["post-332850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-crime","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332850","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=332850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}