{"id":379970,"date":"2026-10-22T19:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379970\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:16:12","slug":"boy-17-arrested-for-shooting-man-to-death-in-midtown-manhattan-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379970\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 17, arrested for shooting man to death in Midtown Manhattan subway station"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for shooting a man to death<\/a> as they quarreled in a Midtown Manhattan subway station, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The teen suspect, who has no criminal history, surrendered with his lawyer early Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n

He was charged with murder and gun possession in the shooting death of 26-year-old Darrel Rodriguez<\/a> last Saturday afternoon on the uptown E train platform at the Seventh Ave. station at W. 53rd St. The suspect\u2019s name was not released because he is underage.<\/p>\n

Investigators believe the teen was smoking marijuana on the train when Rodriguez confronted him about it, sparking an argument that escalated into the fatal shooting, ABC7 New York reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

The shooting sparked an intense manhunt, with the NYPD releasing surveillance footage of the suspect and asking the public\u2019s help identifying him and tracking him down.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

NYPD<\/p>\n

Police released this image of a suspect after a man was fatally shot on the northbound E train platform of the Seventh Ave. subway station at 53rd St. in Manhattan on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

The victim and his killer got into a quarrel that spilled back and forth from the platform onto a train.<\/p>\n

The shooter, clad in a distinctive red outfit, then shot Rodriguez in the chest and ran off.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, a security guard heading home from his job, was rushed by medics to Bellevue Hospital but could not be saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for shooting a man to death as they quarreled in a Midtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-379970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379970","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=379970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}