{"id":344926,"date":"2026-09-12T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344926\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:56:09","slug":"two-men-shot-and-killed-inside-brooklyn-playground-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344926\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men shot and killed inside Brooklyn playground Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-12-073408.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Two men shot and killed inside Brooklyn playground Friday night (Photo: Citizen) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; Two men were shot and killed late Friday night inside a playground in Brooklyn, prompting a double homicide investigation by the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers responded to reports of shots fired around 10:23 p.m. inside Howard Playground, near the intersection of Mother Gaston Boulevard and Glenmore Avenue in Brownsville.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When police arrived, they found a 33-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck and a 35-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the chest and ankle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">EMS transported the 33-year-old victim to Interfaith Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Paramedics brought the 35-year-old victim to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he also succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p> Who was involved <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police have not released the identities of either victim pending proper family notification.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators have not released any information regarding a potential suspect or what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains active. Anyone with information is asked to contact the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information provided by the New York City Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/brooklyn\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Two men shot and killed inside Brooklyn playground Friday night (Photo: Citizen) NEW YORK &#8211; Two men&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[98,850,9,24,12,56,63,122,124,123,618],"class_list":["post-344926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344926","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=344926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}