{"id":353008,"date":"2026-09-22T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353008\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T01:08:09","slug":"teen-fatally-shot-in-far-rockaway-queens-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353008\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen fatally shot in Far Rockaway, Queens, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"h120r\">A teenager was fatally shot at a basketball court in Far Rockaway, Queens on Monday afternoon, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cul69\">A 14-year-old male was found with a gunshot wound to the back at 430 Beach 54th St., after police received a 911 call at around 3:36 p.m., according to the police.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8pa6p\">The teenager was pronounced dead at Cohen Children&#8217;s Medical Center, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5vq7c\">The boy may be the 12th teen to die of gun violence in New York City so far this year, according to police reports compiled by Gothamist.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"96brs\">Although New York City has notched historic lows in shootings and homicides this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-had-record-low-shootings-20-drop-in-homicides-in-2025-mamdani-and-tisch-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youth violence continues to rise<\/a> as a share of overall violent crime, with both victims and perpetrators under 18 reaching their highest percentages since tracking began in 2018, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f4q2q\">The investigation into the death is ongoing and no arrests have been made, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager was fatally shot at a basketball court in Far Rockaway, Queens on Monday afternoon, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-353008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353008","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=353008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}