{"id":370082,"date":"2026-10-11T00:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370082\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:26:55","slug":"officer-fired-weapon-while-responding-to-slashing-in-queens-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370082\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer fired weapon while responding to slashing in Queens, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer fired their weapon while responding to a slashing in Queens late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before midnight at an apartment building on Beach 54th Street between Beach Channel Drive and Almeda Avenue in Edgemere.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a 52-year-old man barricaded himself in an apartment with a 57-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the 52-year-old had been temporarily living with the victims and got into an argument with them after they asked him to leave the residence.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old allegedly slashed the woman in the hands and feet and the man in the head and arms.<\/p>\n<p>Responding NYPD officers were able to enter the apartment, and one officer fired their gun. Police say no one was hit.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old and both victims were taken to a local hospital in stable condition. A person of interest is in custody, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD Force Investigation Division is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer fired their weapon while responding to a slashing in Queens late Friday night. It happened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,103,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-370082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370082","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=370082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}