{"id":338963,"date":"2026-09-05T19:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338963\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:16:49","slug":"police-searching-for-student-they-say-brought-a-gun-to-brooklyn-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338963\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for student they say brought a gun to Brooklyn high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"el5c0\">Police are looking for a 17-year-old boy they said brought a handgun into a high school in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1hmht\">The student was entering the The Frank J. Macchiarola Educational Complex on Avenue X for sports practice when his bag set off a metal detector just before 3 p.m., an NYPD spokesperson said. School safety staff found a black handgun inside.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"78vrn\">The student fled before officers arrived. Police said there were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"18ng7\">Police said their investigation is ongoing. They are seeking information from the public that could help lead to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3h407\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/stats\/reports-analysis\/school-safety.page\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD data<\/a> show school safety personnel recovered 57 weapons from New York City schools from January to June, including knives, box cutters and mace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a 17-year-old boy they said brought a handgun into a high school in Sheepshead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-338963","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\/338963","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=338963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}