{"id":345006,"date":"2026-09-12T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345006\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:22:54","slug":"two-men-shot-dead-at-brooklyn-playground-police-still-searching-for-their-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345006\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men shot dead at Brooklyn playground; police still searching for their killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789222973_559_brooklyn-shooting-lloyd-mitchell-08222026-3.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"crime scene in Brooklyn\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Two men shot dead at Brooklyn playground; police still searching for their killers 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 Police respond to a reported homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p>Detectives in <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> are looking for the suspect who shot two men dead inside a playground on Friday night.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said the bloodshed occurred just before 10:25 p.m. on Sept. 11 inside the Howard Playground, located at the corner of Mother Gaston Boulevard and Glenmore Avenue, within the Howard Houses public housing complex, in Brownsville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd73pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">73rd Precinct<\/a> and NYPD Public Service Area 2 rushed to the scene after being alerted to shots fired inside the playground. When they arrived, they found two victims: a 33-year-old man shot in the neck, and a 35-year-old man with gunshot wounds to his chest and ankle.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the shooting remains unknown at this time. Police sources said Saturday that the suspected shooter \u2014 a man seen wearing a dark red hooded sweatshirt, black sweatpants and black sneakers \u2014 was last seen fleeing on foot northbound along Mother Gaston Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137869099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-12-at-9.50.24-AM.jpg\" alt=\"playground in brooklyn where two men were shot dead\" width=\"1200\" height=\"893\" title=\"Two men shot dead at Brooklyn playground; police still searching for their killers 2\"  \/>Police said the bloodshed occurred just before 10:25 p.m. on Sept. 11 inside the Howard Playground, located at the corner of Mother Gaston Boulevard and Glenmore Avenue, within the Howard Houses public housing complex, in Brownsville, Brooklyn.Photo via Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the 33-year-old man to Interfaith Medical Center, and the 35-year-old man to Brookdale University Hospital. Both were pronounced dead a short time later. Police have not yet released their identities, pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the shooting can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>The 73rd Precinct had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-073pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">five homicides year-to-date through Sept. 6<\/a>, up from three at the same point in 2025. However, shootings in the command had fallen from 23 last year to 18 this year, a 21.7% decrease.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 Police respond to a reported homicide. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Detectives in Brooklyn are looking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25338,98,19820,64608,100,99,782,6616,129313,28774,786,787,788,129314,129302,9,24,63,103,104756],"class_list":["post-345006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-73rd-precinct","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-crime","tag-brooklyn-detectives","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-shooting","tag-brownsville","tag-brownsville-crime","tag-double-homicide","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-gun-violence","tag-homicide-investigation","tag-howard-houses","tag-howard-playground","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-nypd-crime-stoppers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345006","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=345006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}