{"id":355748,"date":"2026-09-24T15:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355748\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:04:45","slug":"man-shot-to-death-by-crook-trying-to-steal-his-jewelry-outside-queens-strip-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355748\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot to death by crook trying to steal his jewelry outside Queens strip club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 45-year-old man was shot to death outside a Queens strip club by a crook trying to steal his jewelry early Thursday, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was shot in the back by a robber who approached him from behind and demanded his jewelry outside <a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/0XhAmXYsjx1LhURIn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riviera Gentleman\u2019s Club<\/a> on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rogersands\/2023\/02\/05\/neighborhood-to-watch-astoria-queens-new-york\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astoria<\/a> about 3:50 a.m., the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the victim to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/elmhurst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elmhurst Hospital<\/a>, where he died. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Blood is pictured splattered on a glass door after a 45-year-old man was fatally shot at Riviera Gentleman's Club on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria, Queens, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"803\" height=\"535\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P15-20260924-094147-2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9252167\" \/>Blood is splattered on a glass door after a 45-year-old man was fatally shot at Riviera Gentleman&#8217;s Club on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria, Queens, on Thursday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The crook, wearing a green Nike Tech sweatsuit, fled empty handed west on 35th Ave. in a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/man-shot-during-attempted-robbery-outside-astoria-club-queens\/19864959\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">white Mercedes-Benz SUV<\/a>, authorities told ABC 7 New York.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Blood is pictured splattered on a glass door after a 45-year-old man was fatally shot at Riviera Gentleman's Club on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria, Queens, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"909\" height=\"606\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P8-20260924-091548.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9252187\" \/>Blood is splattered on a glass door after a 45-year-old man was fatally shot at Riviera Gentleman&#8217;s Club on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria, Queens, on Thursday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate after a 45-year-old man was fatally shot at Riviera Gentleman's Club on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria, Queens, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"8148\" height=\"351\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-P29-20260924-093441.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9252196\" \/>Police investigate after a 45-year-old man was fatally shot at Riviera Gentleman\u2019s Club on Steinway St. near 34th Ave. in Astoria, Queens, on Thursday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old man was shot to death outside a Queens strip club by a crook trying to steal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-355748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355748","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=355748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}