{"id":368190,"date":"2026-10-08T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368190\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:38:12","slug":"boy-15-fatally-shot-nycha-worker-wounded-by-stray-bullet-outside-nyc-housing-complex-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368190\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 15, fatally shot, NYCHA worker wounded by stray bullet outside NYC housing complex: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot and an older man wounded by a stray bullet in a Wednesday evening burst of violence on the grounds of a Harlem housing complex, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jihad Pack took a bullet to the stomach around 6:20 p.m. in the rear of the King Towers building on West 115th Street near Malcolm X Boulevard where he lived, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gravely injured teen was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside, where he later succumbed to his injuries, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41237018\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/police-scene-person-shot-40-144192070.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers gather at a shooting scene behind yellow police tape in New York.\" class=\"wp-image-41237018\"\/>NYPD officers at the scene of where a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot and a NYCHA worker injured by stray bullets in Harlem on Oct. 7, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>A 57-year-old man was shot in the right hand during the fracas, police said. He appeared to be an innocent bystander, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41237031\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/police-scene-person-shot-40-144191903.jpg\" alt=\"Red evidence cones marking the crime scene on the pavement.\" class=\"wp-image-41237031\"\/>Cones marking evidence on the sidewalk at the scene of the shooting in Harlem. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Another 15-year-old boy was taken into custody at the scene, but it wasn\u2019t immediately clear if he was the shooter, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the deadly violence remained under investigation Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot and an older man wounded by a stray bullet in a Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,469,1027,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,305,3980,4730,58],"class_list":["post-368190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-crime","tag-harlem","tag-homicide","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nycha","tag-shootings","tag-teens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368190","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=368190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}