{"id":371226,"date":"2026-10-12T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371226\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:28:23","slug":"two-amazon-workers-shot-outside-brooklyn-fulfillment-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371226\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Amazon workers shot outside Brooklyn fulfillment center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bTwo<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-layoffs-hit-hundreds-of-employees-across-multiple-teams-2026-10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Amazon employees<\/a> were shot and wounded near the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.apple.com\/place?place-id=I89CEFFE7722CDE5A\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn fulfillment center in Red Hook<\/a>, where they both work, police said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, a 35-year-old woman struck in the chest and her friend, a 23-year-old man hit in the shoulder, were taken by medics to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/brooklyn\/nyp-brooklyn-methodist-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital<\/a> and are in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s girlfriend, also an Amazon worker, was not hit.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">victims were shot <\/a>about 11:18 p.m. Sunday near Lorraine and Hicks streets.<\/p>\n<p>The male victim had just got off the bus and was walkiing to work with his girlfriend when he was shot.<\/p>\n<p>The female shooting victim had just left a deli when she was struck.<\/p>\n<p>Two suspects fled the scene in a light-colored sedan, police said, and the victims stumbled into the Amazon warehouse a block away on Bay St., where someone called 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bTwo Amazon employees were shot and wounded near the company\u2019s Brooklyn fulfillment center in Red Hook, where they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-371226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371226","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=371226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}