{"id":117742,"date":"2025-08-04T08:34:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117742\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:34:24","slug":"queens-man-32-fatally-shot-in-downtown-brooklyn-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117742\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens man, 32, fatally shot in downtown Brooklyn clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old Queens man was fatally shot during a dispute outside of a <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownbrooklyn.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">downtown Brooklyn<\/a> eatery, police said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Victim Clyde Ricks was outside Guac Time, a Mexican restaurant on Jay St. near Willoughby St., around 5:30 p.m. Friday when a shooting broke out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne shot only,\u201d Sakib, 29, who works at a nearby pizzeria near the scene recalled of the shooting. \u201cI saw his body, saw blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First, a group was arguing, which led to gunfire erupting in the area and the victim walking down Jay St. and collapsing, according to Sakib.<\/p>\n<p>Ricks was hit in the torso and rushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/brooklyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital<\/a>, where he died from his wounds.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if Ricks was part of the clash that sparked the gunfire, officials said. A motive for the shooting wasn\u2019t immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the argument began at a pizzeria at the corner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"32yr old Clyde Ricks was pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital after he was shot in the torso outside of 391 Jay Street in Brooklyn on Friday Aug. 1, 2025. 1734. Photos taken on Saturday Aug. 2, 2025. 0815. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TNY-P4-20250802-081551.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8455145\" \/>NYPD seen on Jay Street in Brooklyn on Saturday Aug. 2, 2025.  Victim Clyde Ricks was outside Guac Time, a Mexican restaurant on Jay St. near Willoughby St., at around 5:30 p.m. Friday when a shooting broke out.(Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo men were arguing in front of the pizza place, then a few minutes later, the gun sounded like a cannon going off,\u201d one witness, who identified themselves as defixiones23, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Brooklyn\/comments\/1mfcwj4\/crime_scene_near_willoughby_stjay\/?rdt=39412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Reddit<\/a>. \u201cI was getting on the B26 across the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gunman ran off and remained at large Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/12\/26\/elite-nypd-squad-uses-surveillance-video-to-track-and-catch-criminals-we-take-a-lot-of-pride-in-our-work\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scouring the area for surveillance footage<\/a> that can help them identify the suspect and track his movements after he fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Ricks lived in South Jamaica, Queens, about 14 miles from where he was shot.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 32-year-old Queens man was fatally shot during a dispute outside of a downtown Brooklyn eatery, police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5295,1370,728,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-117742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114969579614505731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}