{"id":356685,"date":"2026-09-25T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356685\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:38:09","slug":"queens-shooting-gunman-sought-for-executing-man-steps-away-from-strip-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356685\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens shooting: Gunman sought for executing man steps away from strip club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/queens-strip-club-shooting-09252026-nypd-google.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"gunman in queens shooting outside strip club\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Queens shooting: Gunman sought for executing man steps away from strip club 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police have released images of the gunman who shot and killed a man outside a Queens strip club early on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Photo via Google Maps\/Inset courtesy of NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Police have released images of the gunman who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/man-shot-dead-queens-strip-club-09242026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot and killed a man outside a Queens strip club<\/a> early on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said the suspect took aim at the victim, 45-year-old Hector Figuereo of 41st Street in Brooklyn, just steps away from the Riviera Gentlemen\u2019s Club at 34-48 Steinway St. in Astoria at about 3:45 a.m. on Sept. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a preliminary investigation, police initially reported that the suspect had approached Figuereo from behind and attempted to rob him of his jewelry.\n<\/p>\n<p>Updated information that the NYPD provided on Friday indicated that the perpetrator, wearing all black clothing and a mask, pulled out a gun and opened fire, striking Figuereo in the back.\n<\/p>\n<p>After firing what would be the fatal shot, cops said, the suspect hopped into a white SUV that was last seen heading northbound on 37th Street.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137871563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2471-26-Homicide-114-Pct-09-24-26-Photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"getaway car in queens strip club shooting\" width=\"449\" height=\"158\" title=\"Queens shooting: Gunman sought for executing man steps away from strip club 2\"\/>The white SUV in which, police reported, the suspect fled.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd114pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">114th Precinct<\/a> responded to the scene along with EMS units. Figuereo was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital in critical condition; he later succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suspected shooter remains at large as of Friday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (formerly Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-114pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NYPD data,<\/a> murder in the confines of the 114th Precinct has doubled this year, from two at this point last year to four in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released images of the gunman who shot and killed a man outside a Queens strip club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[40918,3814,132920,51928,784,786,787,132921,1027,9,24,63,103,6399,122,40379,124,123,35871,132922,12707],"class_list":["post-356685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-114th-precinct","tag-astoria","tag-astoria-crime","tag-brooklyn-man","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-gun-violence","tag-hector-figuereo","tag-homicide","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-investigation","tag-queens","tag-queens-crime","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-shooting","tag-riviera-gentlemens-club","tag-steinway-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356685","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=356685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}