{"id":451565,"date":"2025-12-16T19:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/451565\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:42:24","slug":"on-duty-cbp-officer-fires-gun-after-car-crash-at-jfk-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/451565\/","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":3,"featured_media":451566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,51344,57,4222,12790,2936,181121,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,3677,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-451565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-general-domestic-news","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-gun-violence","12":"tag-john-f-kennedy","13":"tag-law-enforcement","14":"tag-local-news-for-apple","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-shootings","22":"tag-u-s-news","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115730956220911174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451565","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=451565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}