{"id":41428,"date":"2025-07-05T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41428\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:48:17","slug":"brooklyn-murder-man-shot-dead-near-closed-school-police-search-for-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41428\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn murder: Man shot dead near closed school, police search for killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/brooklyn-shooting-lloyd-mitchell-07052025-2.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Police car with NYPD logo in front of Brooklyn public school at crime scene\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn murder: Man shot dead near closed school, police search for killer 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn detectives are on the hunt for the killer who shot a man dead near a closed public school early on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a> detectives are on the hunt for the killer who shot a man dead early on Saturday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said the shooting was first reported at about 1:32 a.m. on July 5, when staff at Brookdale University Hospital called police to inform them that a shooting victim had arrived at the site.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to law enforcement sources, hospital staff had received the victim, a 29-year-old man who had been shot in the chest, after he had been brought there via private means.\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite all efforts, the man could not be saved; he was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. Police have not yet released his identity, pending family notification.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137779104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/brooklyn-shooting-lloyd-mitchell-07052025-1.jpg\" alt=\"Police car with yellow crime scene tape extended near side walk\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"Brooklyn murder: Man shot dead near closed school, police search for killer 2\"  \/>Based on a preliminary investigation, police determined that the man had been shot in front of P.S. 174 at 574 Dumont Ave. in New Lots.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd67pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">67th Precinct<\/a> responded to the hospital after receiving the call. Based on a preliminary investigation, police determined that the man had been shot in front of P.S. 174 at 574 Dumont Ave. in New Lots, within the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd75pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">75th Precinct\u2019s<\/a> confines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police then went to the location and sealed off the crime scene, looking for evidence related to the killing. The motive for the shooting remains unknown at this time.\n<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in the active and ongoing investigation.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the murder 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\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Through June 29, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-075pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">75th Precinct had reported six murders year-to-date<\/a>, equal to the total at the same point in 2024. The command also had 20 shootings this year, down from 28 at the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>With reporting by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn detectives are on the hunt for the killer who shot a man dead near a closed public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[29762,32674,5229,32675,32676,1126,32677,4222,4221,26309,32678,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,32679,101,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32680],"class_list":{"0":"post-41428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-67th-precinct","9":"tag-75th-precinct","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-brooklyn-shooting","12":"tag-crime-scene","13":"tag-crime-stoppers","14":"tag-dumont-avenue","15":"tag-gun-violence","16":"tag-homicide","17":"tag-murder-investigation","18":"tag-new-lots","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city","21":"tag-newyork","22":"tag-newyorkcity","23":"tag-ny","24":"tag-nyc","25":"tag-nypd","26":"tag-public-school","27":"tag-shooting","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-of-america","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa","34":"tag-victim-identification"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114802124641799120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41428","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=41428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}