{"id":339625,"date":"2026-09-07T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339625\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:00:12","slug":"a-14-year-old-boy-was-shot-near-rufus-king-park-on-saturday-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339625\/","title":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy was shot near Rufus King Park on Saturday in Queens,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/rufus-king-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rufus King Park<\/a> Saturday in Queens, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops rushed to the scene around 4:52 p.m. on <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/maps\/place\/Jamaica+Ave+%26+153rd+St,+Queens,+NY+11432\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c260dbb7f37c5b:0x438558996fa163d9?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">153 St. and Jamaica Ave.<\/a> in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>The teen, who was believed to be the intended target, was transported to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests were made as the shooter, who was dressed in all black, fled the scene on foot in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"NYPD Officers responding to a call of a man shot at Jamaica Avenue and 150th Street found a 14yr old boy suffering from a gunshot wound to his left thigh inside of the Rufus King Park in Queens on Friday Sept. 5, 2025. 1143. The boy, who is being characterized by the NYPD as being 'very uncooperative', was taken to Northwell Cohen's Children Medical Center. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"7455\" height=\"308\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P24-20250905-114815.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8501479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Police investigate after a 14-year-old boy was shot near Rufus King Park in Queens on Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"NYPD Officers responding to a call of a man shot at Jamaica Avenue and 150th Street found a 14yr old boy suffering from a gunshot wound to his left thigh inside of the Rufus King Park in Queens on Friday Sept. 5, 2025. 1143. The boy, who is being characterized by the NYPD as being 'very uncooperative', was taken to Northwell Cohen's Children Medical Center. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" height=\"308\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P35-20250905-115859.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8501488\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Police investigate after a 14-year-old boy was shot near Rufus King Park in Queens on Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg near Rufus King Park Saturday in Queens, cops said. Cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[36082,9,24,63,122,124,123,20425],"class_list":["post-339625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-boy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339625","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=339625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}