{"id":372564,"date":"2026-10-14T01:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372564\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T01:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:56:35","slug":"17-year-old-arrested-in-fatal-queens-shooting-of-14-year-old-malakai-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372564\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old arrested in fatal Queens shooting of 14-year-old Malakai Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/nyc\/\" title=\"Navigate to NYC News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYC News<\/a>Published: Oct. 13, 2026, 6:01 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VL7XZIUSINBXNOVCFP3W7SG62Q\">A 17-year-old Queens teen was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/nyc\/2026\/09\/boy-14-is-fatally-shot-in-nyc-cops-seek-person-who-fled-on-scooter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sept. 21 fatal shooting of 14-year-old Malakai Adams<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5BQKJIHLEREU5IQWQ3C4KEAXFE\">Adams was shot at about 3:35 p.m. near the rear of the Ocean Bay Apartments on Beach Channel Drive in the Arverne section of Queens, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2O74HSS5JJC27MLXATVDZDCEL4\">Responding officers found Adams with a gunshot wound to the back. He was rushed to Cohen Children\u2019s Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QP6GPWOKIRDJBAHVP3KF7XC5LI\">The NYPD generally does not release the identities of minors charged with crimes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CPSSF23SUZCSNDHIXU3WAOJ3MA\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Scott R. Axelrod is a breaking news reporter for the Staten Island Advance\/SILive.com, covering crime, public safety, community issues and the people who make Staten Island one of New York City&#8217;s most&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC NewsPublished: Oct. 13, 2026, 6:01 p.m. A 17-year-old Queens teen was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-372564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372564","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=372564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}