{"id":348218,"date":"2026-09-16T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348218\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:20:51","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-arrested-for-hunts-point-deadly-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348218\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Arrested For Hunts Point Deadly Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have arrested a 42-year-old man for a deadly<a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/2026\/09\/14\/man-dies-following-shooting-in-hunts-point\/58LfA0j03PYjIQId92t4Mw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> shooting<\/a> in Hunts Point earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The shooting happened in front of 1275 Lafayette Avenue just before 8 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When police arrived, they found 29-year-old Luis Cano with a gunshot wound to his chest.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He was transported to Lincoln Hospital in critical condition where he later died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have now arrested 42-year-old Jonathan Velasquez. He is facing charges for murder, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested a 42-year-old man for a deadly shooting in Hunts Point earlier this week. The shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-348218","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\/348218","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=348218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}