{"id":342801,"date":"2026-09-10T12:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342801\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:58:12","slug":"teen-shot-to-death-around-corner-from-his-williamsburg-brooklyn-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342801\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen shot to death around corner from his Williamsburg, Brooklyn, home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager was shot to death around the corner from his Brooklyn home, <a href=\"http:\/\/An 18-year-old was shot dead in Brooklyn, a short walk from his home, police said Thursday. The shooting happened about 9:57 p.m. Wednesday on Havemeyer St. near S. 2nd St. in Williamsburg. Police said Jayden Velasquez was shot in his face and upper body. Medics rushed him to Bellevue Hospital but he could not be saved. Shell casings were recovered at the scene, police said, but it wasn't clear why the victim, who lived around the corner, was shot. \u200bOn Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at approximately 2157 hours, police responded to a 911 call of a male shot in front of 160 Havemeyer Street, within the confines of the 90 Precinct. Upon arrival, officers observed an 18-year-old male with gunshot wounds to the face and torso. EMS responded and transported the victim to NYC Health and Hospitals\/Bellevue where he was pronounced deceased. There are no arrests at this time, and the investigation remains ongoing. On W\">police<\/a> said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jayden Velasquez, 18, was shot in his face and upper body on Havemeyer St. near S. 2nd St. in Williamsburg about 9:55 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/bellevue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bellevue Hospital<\/a> but he could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman, who was wearing a white tank top and dark-colored pants, ran from the scene and has not been caught.<\/p>\n<p>Cops recovered multiple shell casings at the scene as they investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager was shot to death around the corner from his Brooklyn home, police said Thursday. Jayden Velasquez,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,265],"class_list":["post-342801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brooklyn","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342801","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=342801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}