{"id":343655,"date":"2026-09-11T05:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343655\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T05:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:44:53","slug":"18-year-old-shot-killed-in-williamsburg-brooklyn-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343655\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old shot, killed in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"iiqu6\">A man killed in Williamsburg on Wednesday evening is among the latest teenagers to be fatally shot in New York City this year.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"75o4q\">Police officers found Jayden Velasquez, an 18-year-old Brooklyn resident, shot in the face and torso near the intersection of Havemeyer Street and South 2nd Street in Williamsburg just before 8 p.m. Wednesday, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4iede\">Velasquez was taken to Bellevue Hospital, police said, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cctng\">Police said there have been no arrests as of Thursday morning, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ateuk\">Velasquez is one of at least 15 teenagers fatally shot in the city this year.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"eek49\">This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man killed in Williamsburg on Wednesday evening is among the latest teenagers to be fatally shot in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-343655","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\/343655","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=343655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}