{"id":338643,"date":"2026-09-05T05:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338643\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T05:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:58:49","slug":"teen-caught-with-a-gun-while-going-to-practice-in-brooklyn-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338643\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen caught with a gun while going to practice in Brooklyn: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHEEPSHEAD BAY, Brooklyn (PIX11) \u2014 A teen was busted after allegedly bringing a gun to football practice in Brooklyn on Friday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at around 2:50 p.m. at the Frank J. Macchiarola Educational Complex, which was formerly known as Sheepshead Bay High School.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tGet ongoing crime and safety coverage on our homepage\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources tell PIX11 that the 17-year-old man allegedly had a loaded automatic pistol that was in his bookbag when he went through a metal detector at the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teen struggled with the agent to try to retrieve the bookbag before fleeing, according to sources. The security agent was able to hold on to the gun.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt in the incident, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cruz is a digital content producer.  A native New Yorker, he joined PIX11 in 2009 as a weather producer. More of his work can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/andrew-cruz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHEEPSHEAD BAY, Brooklyn (PIX11) \u2014 A teen was busted after allegedly bringing a gun to football practice in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-338643","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\/338643","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=338643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}