{"id":365486,"date":"2026-10-06T04:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365486\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:29:03","slug":"man-dies-days-after-being-shot-while-sitting-in-mercedes-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365486\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies days after being shot while sitting in Mercedes in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old man died nearly a week after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/28\/man-27-shot-in-head-sitting-in-mercedes-rutland-road-east-flatbush-brooklyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">critically wounded in a hail of bullets<\/a> while sitting behind the wheel of his Mercedes parked in Brooklyn, cops said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dejour Paul was in front of a bodega on Rutland Road near E. 93rd St. in <a href=\"https:\/\/cityneighborhoods.nyc\/east-flatbush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Flatbush<\/a> when the shooter opened fire around 3:20 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was struck in the head, while his grey Mercedes-Benz was left riddled with bullets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Bullet holes are seen in a Mercedes after a shooting on Rutland Rd. near E. 93rd St. in Brooklyn on Monday.\" width=\"3596\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TNY-GA-260928-shooting04.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9256273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Police investigate a shooting on Rutland Rd. near E. 93rd St. in Brooklyn, New York on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating whether a grey sedan spotted leaving the scene was involved in the shooting. There were no arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man died nearly a week after he was critically wounded in a hail of bullets while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[98,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,134,136,135,265],"class_list":["post-365486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-brooklyn","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-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365486","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=365486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}