{"id":372344,"date":"2026-10-13T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372344\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:48:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-manhunt-ends-in-georgia-for-killer-of-bronx-teen-tyson-harps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372344\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Manhunt Ends In Georgia For Killer Of Bronx Teen Tyson Harps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Nearly seven months after the <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/16-year-old-fatally-shot-in-crown-heights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatal November 2025 shooting of Bronx teenager Tyson \u201cTJ\u201d Harps<\/a>, police arrested his alleged killer in Georgia, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Makhai Johnson, 18, of Brooklyn, was arrested on May 27 in connection with the killing, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Johnson faces charges of murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Harps, a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/bronx-football-player-remembered-after-fatal-shooting-in-brooklyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">16-year-old linebacker for the Bronx Justice League football team<\/a>, was shot and killed on the night of Nov. 1 outside a residential building on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police found the teen with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The killing shocked family members, teammates and coaches, who remembered Harps as a talented athlete with a bright future.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In the weeks following his death, loved ones held vigils, memorial events and a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/championship-football-game-played-in-honor-of-gun-violence-victim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tribute football game<\/a> in his honor while urging anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\" https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/police-release-video-of-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-bronx-teen-in-brooklyn\">Investigators later released surveillance video of a suspect <\/a>seen near the scene as they worked to identify the person responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly seven months after the fatal November 2025 shooting of Bronx teenager Tyson \u201cTJ\u201d Harps, police arrested his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-372344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372344","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=372344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}