{"id":353428,"date":"2026-09-22T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353428\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:34:48","slug":"14-year-old-killed-in-attempted-robbery-in-queens-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353428\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old killed in attempted robbery in Queens, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage boy was killed after being shot during an attempted robbery in Queens, according to the NYPD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to an emergency call just after 3:30 p.m. Monday at Ocean Bay Apartments in Far Rockaway. They found Malakai Adams, 14, shot in the back.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really sad, you know, like a lot of them young people and gun violence and all that. It&#8217;s not good,&#8221; one local woman said.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources said the male suspect was attempting to steal Adams&#8217; scooter when he fired the gun. The adult man ran away and is wearing a black sweatshirt and shorts, police said.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, and the NYPD is continuing to investigate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy was killed after being shot during an attempted robbery in Queens, according to the NYPD.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3109,9,24,63,103,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-353428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-far-rockaway","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353428","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=353428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}