{"id":345200,"date":"2026-09-12T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345200\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:38:09","slug":"two-men-fatally-shot-at-brooklyn-playground-nypd-searching-for-suspect-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345200\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men fatally shot at Brooklyn playground; NYPD searching for suspect \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police were searching Saturday for the person who shot and killed two men inside a playground in Brownsville, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The killings happened inside Howard Playground in Brownsville, at Mother Gaston Blvd. and Glenmore Ave. The victims were identified as Antoine Utsey, 35, of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and Deon Miller, 33, who lived up the street from the playground.<\/p>\n

Officers were alerted to shots fired Friday night shortly before 10:30 PM.<\/p>\n

Police found Miller with a gunshot wound in the neck and Utsey with wounds in the chest and ankle.<\/p>\n

EMS transported Miller to Interfaith Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Utsey was pronouced dead at One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center.<\/p>\n

Investigators searched for evidence inside the playground through the night.<\/p>\n

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Authorities have not released details on who might have opened fire or why.<\/p>\n

Area resident Latoya Green said the shooting was especially troubling, given the location.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully, we can we can help. We can come together and stop the violence in the neighborhood with the youth,” she said. “It’s the youth that’s that’s participating in a lot of this violence. So if we can, come up with programs or, you know, outreach programs, mental health (assistance).”<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC New York. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC New York journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were searching Saturday for the person who shot and killed two men inside a playground in Brownsville,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-345200","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\/345200","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=345200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}