{"id":72521,"date":"2025-12-16T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:26:08","slug":"on-duty-cbp-officer-fires-gun-after-car-crash-at-jfk-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72521\/","title":{"rendered":"On-duty CBP officer fires gun after car crash at JFK airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 An on-duty Customs and Border Protection officer fired his gun several times during a confrontation with another motorist Tuesday on an access road for New York\u2019s Kennedy Airport, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The CBP officer told authorities that he pulled his weapon after the other driver attacked him over a minor traffic crash, Port Authority police said. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t clear if the shots hit anything. The other driver fled the scene after the shooting, according to the CBP officer, who was unhurt.<\/p>\n<p>The two-vehicle crash happened shortly before 5 a.m. near the airport\u2019s main car rental facilities on the tangle of roads and ramps that lead to the airport\u2019s terminals, administration buildings and cargo areas.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"ap-audio-customs-and-border-protection-officer-fires-gun-in-dispute-with-driver-at-jfk-airport\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    AP AUDIO: Customs and Border Protection officer fires gun in dispute with driver at JFK airport\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"AudioEnhancement-description\">AP correspondent Julie Walker reports a Customs and Border Protection officer fires a gun in dispute with a driver.<\/p>\n<p>JFK\u2019s roadways are currently undergoing a major construction overhaul and navigating the thicket of detours and traffic changes has been a source of frustration and confusion for many drivers. <\/p>\n<p>The Port Authority didn\u2019t say if the officer was driving an official vehicle. His name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation led to traffic delays in the area during the morning commute, but those issues lessened as the morning progressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 An on-duty Customs and Border Protection officer fired his gun several times during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6662,417,787,1089,8041,23035,9,24,11,10,3980,421],"class_list":["post-72521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-general-domestic-news","tag-general-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-shootings","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521","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=72521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}