14-Year-Old GUNNED DOWN – Masked Shooter Vanishes

A 14-year-old boy took a bullet to the leg outside a Queens park, and the gunman who shot him — dressed head to toe in black — melted into the evening crowd before police could catch him.

Story Snapshot

Police say the boy was shot in the leg near 153rd Street and Jamaica Avenue, just outside Rufus King Park, shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday.
The gunman, described as wearing an all-black outfit, ran off on foot and has not been caught.
Paramedics rushed the teen to Jamaica Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition.
No arrests have been made, and police have not said whether the boy was specifically targeted.

A Sunday Evening Shooting Outside A Queens Park

The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. Sunday near the corner of 153rd Street and Jamaica Avenue, right outside Rufus King Park in Jamaica, Queens. Police say the teen was struck once in the leg. Officers arrived within minutes, according to law enforcement accounts, and found the boy wounded near the park entrance as the neighborhood’s evening foot traffic moved through the area.

Emergency responders got the boy to Jamaica Hospital quickly. Doctors there listed his condition as stable, a detail both the New York Post and the New York Daily News confirmed through police sources. That update matters because it tells worried neighbors and family members the injury, while serious, was not life-threatening.

The Getaway And The Ongoing Manhunt

The shooter did not stick around. Police say the attacker, dressed entirely in black, took off on foot in an unknown direction right after firing. That description is about all investigators have released publicly so far. No name, no photo, no confirmed direction of travel beyond the initial escape from the intersection.

As of the latest reporting, no one has been arrested. The investigation remains open, and detectives have not said whether they believe the boy was picked out on purpose or caught in a shooting meant for someone else. That distinction matters for public safety messaging, but police have not resolved it yet.

A Park With A Recent History Of Violence

Rufus King Park has shown up in police reports before. A year earlier, in September 2025, officers searched for two men after a 14-year-old was shot inside that same park, an investigation that also closed without an arrest at the time it was reported. Patterns like this do not prove one case caused another, but they do show the area has drawn repeated police attention.

Earlier reporting also describes a 13-year-old stabbed near the same park during a dispute, and a fatal shooting tied to a drug deal gone wrong inside the park several years back. None of those cases are proven to connect to Sunday’s shooting. They simply show a location that shows up again and again in Queens crime coverage.

Why Early Details Often Stay Limited

Shootings like this one typically get reported through police accounts first, before independent witnesses or video surface publicly. Studies of crime reporting show law enforcement sources supply the bulk of early facts in these stories, which is why details like a suspect’s exact path or a confirmed motive often arrive later, if at all. That is standard practice, not a sign anything is being hidden.

For now, the confirmed facts stand on their own: a 14-year-old was shot in the leg near a Queens park on a Sunday evening, he is recovering in stable condition, and the man responsible is still out there. Neighbors in Jamaica are left watching for updates, while police continue working a case with no suspect in custody.

Sunday 7:40 p.m.:
• Strong-arm — 3 males, black BMW, ~7:28 p.m. • Fight — West 8th St, Brooklyn • Robbery earlier — Bay 40th & 86th, fled toward Stillwell • Shooting — Rufus King Park, Jamaica, ~5:00 p.m.#NYC #Brooklyn #Queens #LaborDayWeekend

— Howard Weiss (@youfoundhowie) September 6, 2026

Parents in the area now have one more reason to keep a close eye on evening routines near the park. Until an arrest happens, the basic facts — location, injury, escape, and an active investigation — remain the clearest picture available to the public.