{"id":340925,"date":"2026-09-08T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340925\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:10:13","slug":"four-boys-detained-after-brooklyn-center-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340925\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Boys Detained After Brooklyn Center Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12:18 PM | Tuesday, September 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Police officials in Brooklyn Center said officers detained four boys while investigating a shooting that occurred on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrooklynCenterPolice\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">Brooklyn Center police<\/a> were dispatched to a reported shooting in the 5600 block of Xerxes Avenue at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Two police officers that work for other law enforcement agencies were near the site of the shooting conducting a prisoner exchange in a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Police then saw four boys in the area and pursued them on foot. All four were detained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the foot pursuit, officers observed one of the males conceal or discard an item in the area,\u201d the press release read. \u201cA perimeter was established, and a K-9 team conducted an article search. A handgun equipped with an extended magazine was subsequently located. Officers also recovered six or more spent cartridge casings from the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said one person transported themselves to a hospital with a non-life threatening injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, that individual\u2019s involvement in the incident has not been determined,\u201d the press release stated.<\/p>\n<p>The ages of the boys detained were not immediately released. The investigation into the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/city\/brooklyn-center\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Brooklyn Center<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"12:18 PM | Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Police officials in Brooklyn Center said officers detained four boys while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-340925","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\/340925","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=340925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}