{"id":353016,"date":"2026-09-22T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353016\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T01:22:08","slug":"boy-14-shot-to-death-in-queens-during-possible-scooter-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353016\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 14, shot to death in Queens during possible scooter theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/03\/nyc-has-one-of-its-safest-summers-ever-but-subway-assaults-and-hate-crimes-are-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally shot in the back<\/a> Monday afternoon in Queens during a possible attempt to steal his scooter, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was shot at Beach Channel Drive near Beach 51st St. in the Edgemere neighborhood of the Rockaways about 3:30 p.m., cops said. The killer may have been trying to steal the victim\u2019s scooter, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the boy to Cohen Children\u2019s Hospital, where he later died. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>His killer, who was wearing a black sweatshirt and white shorts, fled on a scooter, police sources said. He has not been caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot in the back Monday afternoon in Queens during a possible attempt to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,122,265],"class_list":["post-353016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353016","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=353016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}