{"id":59166,"date":"2025-12-03T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59166\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:18:09","slug":"teen-left-paralyzed-by-stray-bullet-at-nyc-football-game-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59166\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen left paralyzed by stray bullet at NYC football game: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old boy was struck by a stray bullet and left paralyzed when gunfire erupted during a Brooklyn football game over the weekend, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teen \u2013 who was not the intended target \u2013 was shot in the back around 4:15 p.m. Sunday during a game at Avenue J and East 16th Street in Midwood, authorities and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Maimonides Medical Center, where his injuries are considered non-life-threatening \u2013 but the errant slug left him paralyzed, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49053857;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37827415\" width=\"879\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/person-shot-around-4-20-116472612.jpg\" alt=\"A 16-year-old boy was  struck by a stray bullet during a Sunday afternoon football game at Avenue J and East 16th Street in Midwood, authorities and sources said.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-37827415\"  \/>A 16-year-old boy was struck by a stray bullet during a Sunday afternoon football game at Avenue J and East 16th Street in Midwood, authorities and sources said.\u00a0 Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.61769352;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37827416\" width=\"954\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/person-shot-around-4-20-116472051.jpg\" alt=\"A 16-year-old boy was  struck by a stray bullet during a Sunday afternoon football game at Avenue J and East 16th Street in Midwood, authorities and sources said.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-37827416\"  \/>The teen was left paralyzed by the stray slug, sources said. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n<p>Two suspects, last seen wearing black track suits and face masks, fled the scene and had not been caught by Tuesday, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Seven shell casings were recovered at the scene, and a gun was found about a block away, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear whether the wounded teen was part of the football game or if he was watching on the sidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy was struck by a stray bullet and left paralyzed when gunfire erupted during a Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,303,57,6633,9,56,63,65,64,3980,4730,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-59166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-midwood","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-shootings","18":"tag-teens","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59166","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=59166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}