{"id":112317,"date":"2026-01-25T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112317\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:50:07","slug":"dad-shot-dead-after-celebrating-his-birthday-in-nyc-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112317\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad shot dead after celebrating his birthday in NYC: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dad who was shot dead after a night out in the Bronx celebrating his 43rd birthday, according to cops and a report.<\/p>\n<p>Keon Gill, 43, was fatally shot in the chest and an unidentified 35-year-old man was shot in the knee after the festivities at West 242nd Street and Broadway in Riverdale at about 2:50 a.m., cops and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/25\/man-44-shot-to-death-second-man-wounded-in-bronx-street-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a report in the Daily News said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A relative told the Daily News it was an attempted robbery, describing Gill as a \u201cdedicated father\u201d and a husband. Gill lives in Middletown, New York, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38285316\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/062924-Shots-fired-at-NYPD-cops-14.jpg\" alt=\"Police car with flashing lights behind yellow crime scene tape that reads &quot;CRIME SCENE - DO NOT CROSS&quot;.\" class=\"wp-image-38285316\"  \/>An early morning shooting in the Bronx on Sunday wounded one man and took the life of another from Orange County, police said.  Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>The two victims were rushed by EMS to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Gill was pronounced dead. The unidentified 35-year-old he was with is in stable condition, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, and the investigation is still ongoing, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dad who was shot dead after a night out in the Bronx celebrating his 43rd birthday, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,57,9,24,63,103,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-112317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112317","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=112317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}