{"id":345136,"date":"2026-09-12T18:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345136\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:32:15","slug":"2-fatally-shot-at-nyc-playground-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345136\/","title":{"rendered":"2 fatally shot at NYC playground, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were shot and killed when bullets flew at a playground in Brooklyn Friday night, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The victims, a 35-year-old and a 33-year-old, were in Howard Playground at Mother Gaston Boulevard and Glenmore Avenue in Brownsville when <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/18\/nyc-bloody-night-at-least-11-shot-2-stabbed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gunshots rang out <\/a>around 10:30 p.m., according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/28\/us-news\/mom-of-shot-brooklyn-boy-aims-to-raise-money-to-flee-to-safety\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cops heard the burst of gunshots<\/a> and saw multiple people running, police said.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD crime scene unit investigators mark evidence at the scene where two men were fatally shot in Howard Playground in Brooklyn. Kyle Mazza\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Apparent blood stains the concrete at a Brooklyn playground where two men were shot and killed. Kyle Mazza\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/07\/man-killed-in-brooklyn-3-others-hurt-in-overnight-nyc-shootings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When they arrived at the playground<\/a>, they found the 35-year-old shot in the chest and ankle and the 33-year-old struck in the neck.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the younger man to Interfaith Medical Center and the older man to One Brooklyn Health-Brooklyn University Hospital Medical Center. <\/p>\n<p>Neither one of them survived, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A 35-year-old man and a 33-year-old man were killed in the shooting, cops said. Kyle Mazza\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Release of their identities was pending family notification, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate arrests and cops were canvassing the area for video.<\/p>\n<p>The playground is located in the Howard Houses, a New York City Housing Authority development.<\/p>\n<p>Police haven\u2019t made an arrest in the double homicide. Kyle Mazza\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Shootings in the 73rd Precinct \u2014 which covers the playground \u2014 are down 27% to eight from 11 so far this year, over the same period in 2025, according to NYPD data online.<\/p>\n<p>Data broken down by Public Service Area, which are police commands that patrol public housing developments, aren\u2019t available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were shot and killed when bullets flew at a playground in Brooklyn Friday night, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6616,4542,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,3980,58],"class_list":["post-345136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brownsville","tag-guns","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345136","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=345136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}