{"id":108664,"date":"2026-01-22T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108664\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:56:20","slug":"two-dead-86-year-old-woman-clings-to-life-in-bronx-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108664\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead, 86-year-old woman clings to life in Bronx murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead and an 86-year-old woman was clinging to life Thursday following a bloody murder-suicide attempt in the Bronx, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The violence began just before 8 a.m. when a 55-year-old man pulled a gun and shot at a 59-year-old woman and an 86-year-old woman inside an apartment on Johnson Ave. near Kappock St. in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/12\/vacant-expensive-home-riverdale-bronx-gutted-fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riverdale<\/a> section of the Bronx, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The man then turned the weapon on himself and pulled the trigger, shooting himself in the head, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers responding to the grisly scene found the man and 59-year-old woman dead from gunshot wounds to the head.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly woman had been shot in the face, but was still alive.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the elderly woman to an area hospital, where she remained in critical condition Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the victims were not immediately released. Everyone involved is believed to be related to each other, police sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead and an 86-year-old woman was clinging to life Thursday following a bloody murder-suicide attempt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-108664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}