A rideshare driver was fatally shot in the head in the Bronx early Thursday – in what appears to be the city’s first homicide of the year, according to cops and a report.
The 55-year-old victim was found with a mortal gunshot wound to the head when cops responded to the intersection of Morris Avenue and the Cross Bronx Expressway in Mount Hope just before 7 a.m., police said.
NYPD officers are on the scene of a homicide in the Bronx. Kyle Mazza/UNF NEWS/Shutterstock
Responding EMS workers pronounced him dead at the scene, authorities said.
Members of the NYPD Crime Scene Unit and NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner work the scene where a 55-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to the head inside of a vehicle in the area of Morris Avenue and Cross Bronx Expressway in Bronx, New York, Kyle Mazza/UNF NEWS/Shutterstock
The victim, who was not immediately identified by police, was a rideshare driver, WABC reported.
Police on the scene after a rideshare river was fatally shot in the Bronx. Kyle Mazza/UNF NEWS/Shutterstock
The city medical examiner’s office will officially determine how he died, cops said.