{"id":354181,"date":"2026-09-23T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354181\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:20:10","slug":"man-24-killed-in-shocking-midday-shooting-inside-nyc-park-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354181\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 24, killed in shocking midday shooting inside NYC park: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old man was fatally shot during a<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/22\/us-news\/killer-nyc-scooter-bandits-photo-released-as-cops-probe-possible-targeted-shooting-of-teen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> wild shooting<\/a> inside a Brooklyn park Tuesday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/22\/us-news\/nyc-teen-mom-shot-in-laundromat-in-apparently-targeted-attack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> shot in the torso<\/a> a little after 2 p.m. near Cathedral Place and McLaughlin Park in downtown Brooklyn, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed him in critical condition to Methodist Hospital, where he later died, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40944537\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BA8I0463_c44b55.jpg\" alt=\"Two police officers in a park with tools.\" class=\"wp-image-40944537\"\/>The 24-year-old man was shot in the torso a little after 2 p.m. near Cathedral Place and McLaughlin Park, cops said.\u00a0 William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40944547\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BA8I0470.jpg\" alt=\"Orange traffic cone with the number 21, an OMNY student card, and a cigarette butt on a ground of wood chips.\" class=\"wp-image-40944547\"\/>EMS rushed the wounded man to Methodist Hospital in critical condition, where he died.\u00a0 William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The victim was not identified as of Tuesday night, though sources said he had one prior arrest for criminal possession of a weapon in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as cops probe what sparked the gunfire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old man was fatally shot during a wild shooting inside a Brooklyn park Tuesday afternoon, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,303,1840,57,9,24,63,103,58],"class_list":["post-354181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354181","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=354181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}