{"id":43691,"date":"2025-11-18T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43691\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:23:09","slug":"man-shot-dead-in-illegal-brooklyn-nightclub-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43691\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead in illegal Brooklyn nightclub: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763479388_944_b5040d8d-d07d-4d9b-9bf0-46092ee12f41.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Police officers in the Brooklyn at a crime scene\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Man shot dead in illegal Brooklyn nightclub: cops 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police crime scene unit.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> detectives are questioning a person of interest after a man was shot dead inside an illegal nightclub on Monday morning.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the incident unfolded inside 5002 3rd Ave. in Sunset Park at just after 5 a.m. on Nov. 17.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd72pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">72nd Precinct<\/a> responded to the location after receiving a 911 call about an assault in progress.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137812075\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-at-10.13.02-AM.jpg\" alt=\"location of Brooklyn nightclub where man was shot dead\" width=\"1200\" height=\"760\" title=\"Man shot dead in illegal Brooklyn nightclub: cops 2\"  \/>According to police sources, the incident unfolded inside 5002 3rd Ave. in Sunset Park at just after 5 a.m. on Nov. 17.Photo via Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, the responding officers discovered 31-year-old Giovanni Rivera of Borough Park with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso and back.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed Rivera to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he could not be saved and was pronounced dead.\n<\/p>\n<p>While police did not specify a motive for the crime, they stated a person of interest was taken into custody for questioning. Charges against that individual are pending the results of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The 72nd Precinct had just one homicide year-to-date through Nov. 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-072pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the most recent CompStat report<\/a>. There had been three at the same point in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police crime scene unit. Photo by Dean Moses &#13; &#13; Brooklyn detectives are questioning a person of interest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25118,98,100,99,259,9,24,63,103,7125],"class_list":["post-43691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-72-precinct","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-sunset-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43691","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=43691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}