{"id":112346,"date":"2026-01-26T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:30:09","slug":"kingsbridge-one-man-dead-and-another-hospitalized-after-double-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112346\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingsbridge: One Man Dead and Another Hospitalized after Double Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBy S\u00cdLE MOLONEY <\/p>\n<p>THE SCENE AT Broadway &amp; 242nd Street the day after a double shooting in Kingsbridge 1\/26\/26. Video by Norwood News<\/p>\n<p>A 44-year-old man has died and a 35-year-old man is hospitalized and stable after a double shooting in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said that on Sunday morning at around 2.50 a.m., officers from the 50th Precinct responded to a 911 call regarding an assault at the intersection of West 242nd Street and Broadway, the site of the 242nd Street subway station and adjacent to a section of Van Cortlandt Park where the the Van Cortlandt Park swimming pool is roughly located.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4908.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4908.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\"\/><\/a>A DOUBLE SHOOTING took place at the intersection of 242nd Street and Broadway in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx on Sunday morning, Jan. 26, 2026. Pictured are some nearby businesses in the area.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival, officers observed a 35-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the knee, and a 44-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the chest,\u201d a police spokesperson said. \u201cEMS responded and transported the 44-year-old male to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced deceased and the 35-year-old male to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said there are no arrests at this time, and the investigation is ongoing. The deceased has been identified as Keon Gill, 44, of Middletown, NY.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Norwood News visited the scene on Sunday, many of the stores were closed due to heavy snowfall and police appeared to have already wrapped up their investigation. We asked if the shooting took place on the Park side or on the opposite side of Broadway and did not receive a response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4892.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4892.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\"\/><\/a>A VIEW OF Van Cortlandt Park from the 242nd Street Subway Station overpass across Broadway at 242nd Street in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2026. Two men were shot at the location, one fatally, earlier the same day.\u00a0<br \/>Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p>Heavy snowfall began overnight from Saturday to Sunday, and it\u2019s possible it may have potentially hampered the ballistics investigation by the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An employee at a local liquor store said the store had closed around midnight and another smoke shop employee said the store closed at around the same time on Saturday night. Neither knew about the shooting. A female employee at a local smoke shop said, \u201cIt\u2019s crazy that this has happened right here! I don\u2019t know anything about it but I\u2019m praying for the family. That\u2019s insane!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nTHE SCENE AT Broadway &amp; 242nd Street the day after a double shooting in Kingsbridge 1\/26\/26 Part II. Video by Norwood News\n<\/p>\n<p>Alfredo from local restaurant, Estrellita Poblana, on the same block said he had also closed around 11 p.m. the night before. Asked if he had noticed any group arguing or getting hostile with one another, he said he had not. He said it was generally a quite area apart from when he said, occasionally, undomiciled people came across from the park to the restaurant and asked for money or food.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We also asked a few other residents of the area if they had any knowledge of the incident but none were aware of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_4912.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\"\/><\/a>A DOUBLE SHOOTING took place at the intersection of 242nd Street and Broadway in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx on Sunday morning, Jan. 26, 2026. Pictured are some nearby businesses in the area.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at\u00a0<a id=\"m_-3983025228378926297OWAe6f483b4-1226-2278-0ca5-1c6fab35f7ef\" href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1769471244859000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0cBUgB-Ar8eUy8p5vB3TdC\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All calls are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; By S\u00cdLE MOLONEY THE SCENE AT Broadway &amp; 242nd Street the day after a double shooting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-112346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112346","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=112346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}