{"id":378776,"date":"2026-10-21T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378776\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:04:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-george-washington-bridge-reopens-after-shooting-triggers-massive-traffic-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378776\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | George Washington Bridge Reopens After Shooting Triggers Massive Traffic Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A driver was found shot in the head inside a vehicle on the George Washington Bridge Tuesday evening, prompting a major police investigation that brought traffic to a standstill during the height of the commute.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident unfolded around 7 p.m. on the westbound upper level of the bridge. First responders were initially dispatched for what was reported as a one-car crash, but officers found the victim unresponsive inside the vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Port Authority police said the victim was taken to Englewood Medical Center. That person\u2019s condition was not immediately made available.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities have not released the victim&#8217;s identity or said whether the victim was a man or woman. Police also have not announced whether they are searching for a suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The investigation has since concluded, and the George Washington Bridge has been cleared and reopened for the Wednesday morning commute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was found shot in the head inside a vehicle on the George Washington Bridge Tuesday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-378776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378776","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=378776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}