{"id":358905,"date":"2026-09-28T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358905\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:10:09","slug":"man-fighting-for-his-life-after-being-shot-in-the-head-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358905\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fighting for his life after being shot in the head in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC_0974_68ba07.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"police at Brooklyn scene where man was shot in head\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Man fighting for his life after being shot in the head in Brooklyn 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police in Brooklyn are on the hunt for a gunman who shot a man and left him on the brink of death early on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> are on the hunt for a gunman who shot a man and left him on the brink of death early on Monday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to NYPD sources, officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd67pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">67th Precinct<\/a> were called to a deli located at 980 Rutland Road in Brownsville at around 3:20 a.m. on Sept. 28 after receiving reports of shots fired.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, law enforcement sources said, the cops discovered a 27-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the left side of his head.\n<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed him to Brookdale University Hospital, where he remains in critical condition.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137871975\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC_0956.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3333\" title=\"Man fighting for his life after being shot in the head in Brooklyn 2\"  \/>Police are on the hunt for a gunman who left a man fighting for him after a Brooklyn shooting during the early hours of Monday morning.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n<p>Police sources did not provide information regarding what led up to the shooting, nor did they provide a description of a perpetrator. It\u2019s believed that the gunman fled the scene inside a gray four-door sedan.<\/p>\n<p>Long after sunrise Monday, a heavy police presence remained on the scene, which was sealed off as detectives combed the location for evidence.\n<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Shootings in the 67th Precinct are down by 65% in 2026, from 25 last year to 9 this year through Sept. 20; the number of shooting victims are down by 67%, from 34 to 11.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137871979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DSC_1380.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5000\" height=\"2810\" title=\"Man fighting for his life after being shot in the head in Brooklyn 3\"  \/>Police are on the hunt for a gunman who left a man fighting for him after a Brooklyn shooting during the early hours of Monday morning.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Brooklyn are on the hunt for a gunman who shot a man and left him on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,303,9,24,63,103,104,1096],"class_list":["post-358905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358905","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=358905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}