{"id":36422,"date":"2025-07-03T22:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36422\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:20:19","slug":"man-fatally-shot-in-chest-outside-brooklyn-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36422\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally shot in chest outside Brooklyn home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSC_3025.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Detectives investigate a shooting that left a man fatally wounded at 627 Rockaway Parkway\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Man fatally shot in chest outside Brooklyn home, police say 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Detectives investigate a shooting that left a man fatally wounded at 627 Rockaway Parkway<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a> are searching for a gunman who fatally shot a man outside his home on Thursday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=67th+Precinct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">67th Precinct<\/a> responded to reports of a shooting outside 726 Rockaway Pkwy. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=East+Flatbush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">East Flatbush<\/a> shortly after 7:30 a.m. on July 3.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving on the scene, cops found a 31-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the chest.\n<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics transported the victim three blocks to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to authorities. His identity has not been released pending family notification, but police sources said they believe the shooting occurred outside his residence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137778935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSC_3024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" title=\"Man fatally shot in chest outside Brooklyn home, police say 2\"  \/>Detectives spoke to neighbors about the fatal shooting early Thursday morningPhoto by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect fled southbound on Ditmas Avenue. He was described only as a male with a dark complexion.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances leading up to the shooting remain unclear. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/1-dead-in-shooting-on-rockaway-parkway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News 12 reported<\/a> that neighbors saw the two men arguing in the street before shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137778936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSC_3012.jpg\" alt=\"An NYPD Helicopter searches for the shooting suspect near the victim's East Flatbush residence\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" title=\"Man fatally shot in chest outside Brooklyn home, police say 3\"  \/>An NYPD Helicopter searches for the shooting suspect near the victim\u2019s East Flatbush residencePhoto by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>The July 3 incident marks the seventh homicide and 18th shooting in the 67th Precinct so far this year, per the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-067pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> latest NYPD statistics.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this shooting can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives investigate a shooting that left a man fatally wounded at 627 Rockaway Parkway Photo by Lloyd Mitchell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[29762,5229,1121,29763,6397,4221,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,24672,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-36422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-67th-precinct","tag-america","tag-brooklyn","tag-east-flatbush","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-homicide","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-pm-newsletter","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114791633828350949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36422","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=36422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}