{"id":333242,"date":"2026-08-30T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333242\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:38:09","slug":"accused-nyc-double-killers-bizarre-first-words-after-fbi-manhunt-and-nypd-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333242\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused NYC double-killer’s bizarre first words after FBI manhunt and NYPD bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

A violent ex-con who had been wanted by the FBI for two cowardly Big Apple murders<\/a> had a bizarre message for New Yorkers after getting nabbed by the NYPD on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod is good, God is great,\u201d Jesus Acosta said as he was hauled off to Bronx Criminal court in handcuffs for the two deadly robberies.<\/p>\n

Detectives haul accused double-killer Jesus Acosta, 31, from the 43rd Precinct stationhouse on Saturday. William Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n

The parolee, 31, had been the subject of a manhunt by the feds and NYPD for fatally shooting a married dad of two and wings-restaurant worker in Brooklyn on Aug. 23, then pumping a deadly bullet into a customer at a Bronx deli, cops said. <\/p>\n

There is no indication that the slayings involved anything but robberies. <\/p>\n

He was caught <\/a>by New York\u2019s Finest at a Bronx park over the weekend, police said. <\/p>\n

Acosta was still on parole after being released from state prison April 23 following 10 years behind bars on assault and felony gun possession charges, according to online records.<\/p>\n

Hardworking married dad of two MD Yousuf, 44, was fatally shot in Brooklyn last week, police said. Gofundme<\/p>\n

His killing spree began when he shot beloved hard-working wings-eatery employee MD Yousef, 44, in the head during a heist. Yousef died at the hospital, police said.<\/p>\n

Within 48 hours, Acosta pulled off another armed robbery at a bodega on 149th Street, where he shot and killed 33-year-old Tayvon Shuler, cops said..<\/p>\n

A vigil and memorial is set up for a 33-year-old bodega customer who also was allegedly fatally shot by the suspect. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

The FBI posted a $25,000 reward<\/a> for the accused career criminal, while United Bodegas of America, a Big Apple-based advocacy group for small food retailers, put up another $10,000, and Acosta was nabbed in the park Saturday.<\/p>\n

He was led out of the 43rd Precinct in The Bronx in cuffs hours later, ignoring questions from reporters outside the stationhouse before he blurted out his bizarre first public comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A violent ex-con who had been wanted by the FBI for two cowardly Big Apple murders had a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,98,5970,12193,57,238,9,24,63,103,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-333242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-fbi","tag-manhunts","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333242","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=333242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}