{"id":63465,"date":"2025-07-13T23:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63465\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T23:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:47:09","slug":"nyc-dad-gunned-down-while-on-his-way-to-pick-up-9-year-old-daughter-at-brooklyn-beauty-parlor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63465\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC dad gunned down while on his way to pick up 9-year-old daughter at Brooklyn beauty parlor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young Brooklyn dad was gunned down Saturday night while on his way to pick up his 9-year-old daughter at a local beauty parlor \u2014 and his killer is still on the loose.<\/p>\n<p>Jahshyim Whitfield, 27, was headed to pick up the girl in Clinton Hill shortly before 9:30 p.m. when he was shot in the torso and left mortally wounded on the sidewalk, police and relatives said.<\/p>\n<p>The father of two was rushed to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.67871094;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36526357\" width=\"400\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/470-dekalb-avenue-lafayette-gardens-108122327.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a man hugging his young daughter.\" class=\"wp-image-36526357\"  \/>Murder victim Jahshyim Whitfield, 27, doted over his 9-year-old daughter, Ariana, relatives said. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy firstborn is gone. My son is gone,\u201d the dead man\u2019s grandmother, Evelyn Whitefield, told The Post Sunday. \u201cHe don\u2019t call me grandma, he called me \u2018Ma.\u2019 He would rather come to my house than his own mother\u2019s house. He liked grandma\u2019s cooking.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Relatives said Whitfield, who worked as a security guard, doted over his two girls \u2014 Ariana, 9, and Kay Lani, 4 \u2014 and was on his way to pick up his older daughter at the beauty parlor when he was shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great father. That\u2019s what he cared about, his family,\u201d a woman identifying herself as Whitfield\u2019s aunt told The Post Sunday. \u201cHe was a devoted father and while they took him, his daughter was spending his whole summer with him.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36526352\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-around-9pm-man-shot-108080406.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers at a crime scene in Brooklyn.\" class=\"wp-image-36526352\"  \/>Jahshyim Whitfield was shot dead in Clinton Hill before 9:30 p.m. Saturday by an unknown gunman, police said. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer life is going to be different forever,\u201d she said of Ariana.<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD spokesperson said the shooting is under investigation, and cops have not revealed a possible motive for the fatal encounter \u2014 nor have they nabbed they nabbed the culprit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young Brooklyn dad was gunned down Saturday night while on his way to pick up his 9-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,5248,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,7207,3677,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-63465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-murders","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-shootings","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114848598993637277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63465","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=63465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}