{"id":339449,"date":"2026-09-06T17:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339449\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:20:25","slug":"alleged-gunman-in-custody-after-barricading-himself-inside-a-jackson-heights-apartment-nypd-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339449\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged gunman in custody after barricading himself inside a Jackson Heights apartment: NYPD \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC_8738.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"ESU ended the brief standoff after gaining entry to the apartment in Jackson Heights on Sept. 4, 2026, and taking him into custody.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>ESU ended the brief standoff after gaining entry to the apartment in Jackson Heights on Sept. 4, 2026, and taking him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A quiet residential block in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/jackson-heights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Heights<\/a> was transformed into an armed camp moments after an allegedly armed man barricaded himself into an apartment on 85th Street on the night of Friday, Sept. 4. <\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd115pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">115th Precinct<\/a> responded to a 911 call at 6:40 p.m. on Sept. 4 reporting shots fired at 85-05 35th Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They arrived at the scene within minutes at the Queen Elizabeth apartments, just a half dozen blocks west of the precinct. Cops were informed by residents that a man had barricaded himself inside one of the building units. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit (ESU) came to the location and gained entry into the apartment. A person of interest was taken into custody without incident, according to an NYPD spokesperson. <\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries reported, and no arrests had been made as of midday Saturday, the police spokesperson added. The investigation remains ongoing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-621838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC_8751.jpg\" alt=\"Police from the 115th Precinct and ESU responded to a East Elmhurst apartment building after an allegedly armed man barricaded himself inside one of the units on Friday evening.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\"  \/>Police from the 115th Precinct and ESU responded to a Jackson Heights apartment building after an allegedly armed man barricaded himself inside one of the units on Friday evening.Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-621836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC_8961.jpg\" alt=\"Cops arrived at the scene within minutes at the Queens Elizabeth apartments, just a half dozen blocks west of the precinct.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\"  \/>Cops arrived at the scene within minutes at the Queen Elizabeth apartments, just a half dozen blocks west of the precinct.Photo by Ramy Mahmoud\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESU ended the brief standoff after gaining entry to the apartment in Jackson Heights on Sept. 4, 2026,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[32886,127475,105979,9939,127476,88995,77751,10400,9,24,63,103,791,22371,122,40379,127477,124,123,39846],"class_list":["post-339449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-115th-precinct","tag-25th-avenue","tag-85th-street","tag-armed-suspect","tag-barricaded-suspect","tag-emergency-service-unit","tag-esu","tag-jackson-heights","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-nypd-investigation","tag-police-response","tag-queens","tag-queens-crime","tag-queens-elizabeth-apartments","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-shots-fired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339449","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=339449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}