{"id":744487,"date":"2026-07-05T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744487\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:31:08","slug":"at-least-eight-shot-including-four-children-in-new-yorks-coney-island-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744487\/","title":{"rendered":"At least eight shot, including four children, in New York\u2019s Coney Island | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">At \u2060least eight people, including four children, were shot and injured during the \u2060US \u200bIndependence Day holiday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> City\u2019s Coney Island neighbourhood, ABC News \u2060said on Sunday, citing the New York City police department (NYPD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police officers responded to reports of a shooting \u200bat about 10.37pm on the Brooklyn neighbourhood\u2019s West 31st Street, \u200cthe NYPD said in a statement to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Those injured included two men, two women, and four children \u2013 aged 14, 12, seven and six \u2013 according to the \u200cnews outlet. It quoted the NYPD as saying all the victims had \u200bbeen transported to hospitals. Seven were in stable condition, it said, while a 21-year-old woman was in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police said they recovered \u2060a firearm at the scene but \u200bhave not \u200bmade any arrests, according \u200bto ABC. The NYPD did not \u200bimmediately respond \u200cto a \u200bReuters \u200brequest for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Saturday marked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/04\/trump-launches-americas-250th-birthday-celebrations-with-partisan-attack\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At \u2060least eight people, including four children, were shot and injured during the \u2060US \u200bIndependence Day holiday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-744487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}