{"id":108733,"date":"2026-01-22T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108733\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:50:09","slug":"2-dead-in-apparent-botched-nyc-murder-suicide-as-86-year-old-woman-clings-to-life-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108733\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead in apparent botched NYC murder-suicide as 86-year-old woman clings to life: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed and an elderly woman left clinging to life in an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/murder-suicide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">apparent botched double murder-suicide<\/a> in the Bronx Thursday morning, cops and law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>A 55-year-old man and a 59-year-old woman \u2013 believed to be siblings \u2013 were both found shot in the head when cops responded just before 8 a.m. to a 911 call for multiple shots fired inside a co-op building on Johnson Avenue in Spuyten Duyvil, authorities and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>An 86-year-old woman \u2013 who sources say is believed to be their mother \u2013 was discovered with a gunshot wound to the face, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.47338129;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38253947\" width=\"869\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2500-johnson-ave-bonx-allegeded-119445146.jpg\" alt=\"An NYPD officer responds to a shooting at 2500 Johnson Ave. in the Bronx.\" class=\"wp-image-38253947\"  \/>An NYPD officer responds to the Bronx shooting. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n<p>The younger woman, who was discovered lying in bed, was pronounced dead at the scene, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly victim was rushed to Harlem Hospital in critical but stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38253951\" width=\"734\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2500-johnson-ave-bonx-allegeded-119445140.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD vehicle parked outside 2500 Johnson Avenue in the Bronx.\" class=\"wp-image-38253951\" style=\"width:734px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\"  \/>An NYPD vehicle parked by the scene at Johnson Avenue. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the man \u2013 who was discovered lying in the hallway with two guns on his lap \u2013 was also declared dead by EMS, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the man fired at his relatives and turned the weapon on himself, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>None of the victims were immediately identified by police, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were killed and an elderly woman left clinging to life in an apparent botched double murder-suicide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,57,14034,9,56,63,65,64,3980,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-108733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-murder-suicide","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108733","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=108733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}